Possible Suitors for Remy Cointreau’s Champagne

Dear Client: Remy Cointreau chief Jean-Marie Laborde said he hopes to sell the company's champagne brands by March. If that is the case, then a deal could be announced shortly. Since Remy announced it was putting its champagne unit on the seller block, analysts and media sources have named Bacardi, LVMH, Pernod Ricard, Laurent-Perrier, Vranken-Pommery Monopole, Alliance Champagne, Nicolas Feuillatte and Lanson-BCC as possible suitors. A report came out of France last month claiming that LVMH made a deliberately low