The Pinterest effect on e-commerce sites continues: online wine retailer Wine.com, a company with $67 million in annual revenue, is adding a social shopping component to its website which not only looks like Pinterest, but is also powered by Facebook.
Majestic Wine, the British wine retailer, has said it will buy Naked Wines, a wine club known for its strong social media presence, for £70 million as it looks to expand overseas.
For Wine.com, an Internet wine retailer that merged last week with Wineshopper.com, the ability to send highly targeted e-mail messages to customers has sharply improved the effectiveness of the company's marketing.
Around the same time the Ketchums were seeking their license, Total Wine & More, the country's largest independent wine retailer, was making a play to enter the Tennessee market.
The Internet wine retailer eVineyard, based in Portland, Ore., has acquired its competitor, Wine.com, for an undisclosed amount.
— Jeff Gordinier Decanter: The wife of the Singapore business executive who has been identified as the new investor in Robert M. Parker Jr.'s Wine Advocate is the majority shareholder of a Singapore wine retailer that sells wine investments and wine futures.
Her other son, Paul, is a wine retailer in Los Angeles.
March – Oddbins, goes into administration, putting 400 jobs at the 128-outlet wine retailer at risk.
"It proves there's still a role for a specialist wine retailer," Mr Gormley said.
The fact that the biggest wine retailer, Tesco, stocks only three threeee!
Naked Wines, an online wine retailer, offered a mini-bond that paid 10% in wine or 7% in cash.
