Pernod Ricard

Pernod Ricard
Pernod Ricard S.A.
Type Société Anonyme
Traded as EuronextRI
Industry Drinks
Founded 1975
Headquarters Paris, France
Key people Pierre Pringuet (CEO), Patrick Ricard (Chairman)
Products Distilled beverages
Revenue 7.081 billion (year - June 2010)[1]
Operating income €1.707 billion (yr - Jun 2010)[1]
Profit €951 million (yr - Jun 2010)[1]
Employees 18,180 (Jun 2010)[1]
Website www.pernod-ricard.com

Pernod Ricard (EuronextRI) is a French company that produces distilled beverages. The company's eponymous products, Pernod Anise and Ricard Pastis, are both anise-flavoured liqueurs and are often referred to simply as Pernod or Ricard. The company also produces several other types of pastis.

After the banning of absinthe, Pernod Ricard was created from the Pernod Fils company, which had produced absinthe. It is now a worldwide conglomerate.

Pernod Ricard owns the distilled beverage division of the former corporation Seagram, along with many other holdings. In 2005, the company acquired a British-based competitor, Allied Domecq plc.

In 2008, Pernod Ricard announced its acquisition of Swedish-based V&S Group, which produces Absolut Vodka.

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History

Pernod in a glass with water and ice.

Pernod

  • 1797 - Henri-Louis Pernod opened his first absinthe distillery in Switzerland.
  • 1805 – Maison Pernod Fils (simply known as Pernod Fils) was founded in Pontarlier, Franche-Comté in eastern France by Henri-Louis Pernod, a French distiller of Francophone Swiss origin, and started the production of the anise-flavored liquor known as absinthe.
  • 1850 - Henri-Louis Pernod died.
  • 1871 – Distillerie Hémard was founded near Paris.
  • 1872 – Société Pernod Père & Fils opened in Avignon.
  • 1915 – Production and consumption of absinthe was prohibited in France. Most companies looked for alternatives and begin producing pastis instead.
  • 1926 – All 3 distilleries merged to form Les Établissements Pernod.
  • 1951 – Pastis 51, was launched.
  • 1965 – Takeover of Distillerie Rousseau, Laurens et Moureaux, producer of the Suze liquor since 1889.

Ricard

  • 1932 – Ricard, which soon became France's favourite long drink, was founded in Marseille by Paul Ricard.
  • 1940 – Production of pastis was prohibited by the Vichy regime.
  • 1944 – Production of pastis became legal again.
  • 1968 – Paul Ricard retired; his son Patrick became CEO in 1978.

Pernod Ricard

  • 1975 – Old rivals Pernod and Ricard merged to form Pernod Ricard S.A..
  • 1988 – Pernod Ricard acquired Irish Distillers (which includes Jameson Irish whiskeys).
  • 1989 – Pernod Ricard acquired Orlando Wyndham (makers of Jacob's Creek).
  • 1993 – Pernod Ricard worked with Cuban companies to create Havana Club International.
  • 2001 – Pernod Ricard purchased 38% of Seagram's Wines and Spirits business.
  • 2005 – Pernod Ricard purchased Allied Domecq.
  • 2008 – Pernod Ricard purchased V&S Group including the Absolut Vodka brand, from the Swedish government.[2]

Subsidiaries

Brands

Head office of Pernod Ricard, 12 place des États-Unis, Paris, 16th arr.

Pernod Ricard owns a wide variety of beverage brands worldwide. These include:

As of 26 July 2005, the brand portfolio expanded to include former Allied Domecq products:

Lincolnshire, Illinois-based Fortune Brands acquired a number of former Allied Domecq brands from Pernod Ricard following Pernod Ricard's acquisition of Allied Domecq. These include:

Fortune Brands' agreement with Pernod Ricard also included the purchase of the Maker's Mark bourbon brand, which remained subject to regulatory clearance in the United States. While the U.S. Federal Trade Commission conducted its review, Maker's Mark was owned and managed by Pernod Ricard and Pernod Ricard received the earnings from the brand. Fortune Brands was compensated with interest payments upon transfer of the brand.[3]

Yoo-hoo chocolate beverage (notably non-alcoholic) was sold to Pernod Ricard in 1989, and in 2001 Pernod Ricard sold it to Cadbury Schweppes.

Controversies

Support of bullfighting in France

According to the NGO Alliance anticorrida, Pernod Ricard is the major funder of bullfighting in France, financing bullfighting clubs and sponsoring corridas despite the opposition of a majority of French citizens to blood sports.[4].

Property rights conflict over the Havana Club trademark

The Havana Club brand was lost to its founders, the Arechabala family, due to the 1959 Cuban Revolution and an ongoing legal battle opposes the claimed trademark owners in the US to the joint-venture between Pernod Ricard and the Cuban State-owned company Corporación Cuba Ron. The Havana Club trademark remains unchallenged elsewhere in the world, having been validated by court decisions in a number of other countries than the US.[5][6][7].

Chemistry

The pastis beverages produced by Pernod Ricard will become cloudy when diluted because they are aniseed-based. These beverages contain oils called terpenes, which are soluble in an aqueous solution that contains 30% ethanol or more by volume. When the solution is diluted to below 30% ethanol, the terpenes become insoluble; this causes a cloudy precipitate to form in the solution. The same chemistry causes absinthe to go cloudy when diluted.

References

External links

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