Treasury’s lessons in China
When it comes to China, Australian exporters need to learn from past mistakes.
When it comes to China, Australian exporters need to learn from past mistakes.
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Treasury Wine Estates, the makers of Penfolds, is on a mission to recruit the next generation of US wine drinkers.
It was a mix of business and pleasure as US rapper Snoop Dogg and his entourage dropped in on Treasury Wine Estates CEO Tim Ford at the winemaker’s Melbourne HQ on Friday.
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The winemaker’s chief executive Tim Ford has worked hard to keep the China fires burning in the face of punitive tariffs imposed in late 2020.
Treasury Wine Estates’ earnings soar as luxury wine sales gain, but missed sales and profit targets drives its share price 7 per cent lower.
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Local bosses including Treasury Wine Estates’ Tim Ford are making plans to head to China next year with political ties easing and its Covid-19 restrictions ending.
The Penfolds producer says it isn’t seeing a shift in consumer spending despite financial uncertainty around the world.
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A thirst for premium and luxury wine in the US, could boost Treasury Wine’s North American business.
Treasury Wine Estates is banking on its luxury Penfolds brand to accelerate the company’s growth while China remains closed off.
As companies release their annual results over the next two weeks, more will be revealed about the state of Australia’s relationship with its largest trading partner.
China’s ambassador to Australia says Beijing views the federal Labor government as having the potential to reset the relationship between the countries. Penfolds may be an early beneficiary.
Treasury Wine Estates scores a win against Chinese-Australian company Rush Rich, which it alleges has been copycatting its Penfolds wine in China.
Germany’s AM alpha has capitalised on the red hot industrial market, bagging a $23m profit on the sale of an Adelaide warehouse just a year after its purchase.
The winemaker’s plans to make its up-market Penfolds wine in China will stand it in good stead in the long term as the Chinese market continues to grow.
Treasury Wine Estates says its new $165m bottling operation in the Barossa Valley is the largest in the southern hemisphere.
Treasury Wine boss Tim Ford believes consumers will continue to gravitate to more premium wines despite the rising cost of living.
The bruising trade war with China has sunk sales of Penfolds, but its owner Treasury Wine Estates has seen strong demand for the luxury wine brand in other parts of Asia.
Treasury Wine Estates’ results are a sharp reminder of two factors in terms of Australia’s dealings with China.
The wine producer behind the iconic Penfolds brand says it is out of the “recovery” stage after being hit hard by China’s market “closure”.
Despite crippling tariffs and a crackdown on Australian wine by China, the pricey favoured drop is still finding its way into the country as Chinese drinkers miss Penfolds, CEO reveals.
ASX closed 1.1 per cent higher, driven by healthcare, real estate and financial stocks. Liontown surged on Tesla deal, CSL and Treasury Wine jumped on solid interim results and business credit demand bounced back.
Treasury Wine Estates is lobbying for the British government to reconsider a new tax regime for wine imports that threatens to wipe out any benefit from a free trade agreement.
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The present-day Australian wine industry is the result of a Game of Thrones saga that began in 1961.
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