Rémy Cointreau

Big auction return in Hong Kong for the former Finance Secretary Henry Tang's cellar, which is more classic Bordeaux, Burgundy, Rhone and Champagne.

The news that Remy Cointreau actually saw a sales uptick also was picked up.

Oh, wow.

Which was quite nice.

Jeffries estimates that U.S. profit exposure is massive for these multinationals.

About 50% for Diageo, 40% for Remy Cointreau, 30% for Capari, and 25% for Pernod Ricard.

That is a lot of exposure.

When you are that exposed to the U.S., and the U.S. consumer is systematically trading down their basket size...

Now, Chris has spent around 15 years within the drinks industry, beginning his career at Majestic Wine before whiskey well and truly got hold of him.

Now, since then, he's worked across retail, sales, business development, marketing, premium spirits, before joining, uh, Rémy Cointreau, um, and then Lancaster Spirits in 2024.

Now, Lancaster itself deci- describes Chris as bringing experience across whiskey marketing, branding, logistics, field sales, and retail.

And he's joined Lancaster at a particularly exciting moment, because the company filled its first cask of what was going to become the first Lancastrian single malt, and that was in 2024.

... very memorable, um, for me.

Yeah.

And you've worked across whiskey retail, as you said, and, uh, then spent time with, uh, Rémy Cointreau, uh, in business development.

What did working with established international drinks brands teach you about bringing, uh, a respectively young business like Lancaster Spirits to the forefront?