Financed wine, restaurant business under PlumpJack label.
Pan Sutong gets the bulk of his fortune from his stake in Hong Kong-listed Goldin Financial Holdings, which has interests in real estate, finance and wine.
* Have weekly money dates to discuss finances; bring wine, cheese, chocolate or whatever makes it a date.
For the winemaker, we are able to help finance their dream wines becoming a reality.
Dropbox's modern bottom-up distribution method gives it a beachhead, but it will still need money to finance traditional CIO wine-and-dining.
CHOCOLATE -- like fashion, wine and finance -- has become a complex cultural phenomenon.
I think it is due to the fact that most EU VCs are not entrepreneurs but pure "corporate finance bred boys" or "wine and dine talkers" so they don't understand risk and how to work with entrepreneurs.
And some golfers, like Weir, use their wines to finance charitable foundations.
The Saadé brothers, scions of a Lebanese-Syrian family of Greek Orthodox origins, whose business interests range from real estate to finance, also oversee a burgeoning wine business.
"In the Languedoc or Bordeaux, one must finance storage and exports, and wine prices are subject to international competition," he explained.
