Constellation Brands, Inc. engages in producing and marketing beverage alcohol brands in wine, spirits, and imported beer categories. It operates in three divisions: Constellation Wines, Constellation Spirits, and Crown Imports. The Constellation Wines division produces and markets table wine, sparkling wine, and dessert wine under various brands, such as Robert Mondavi Winery, Inniskillin, Simi, Wild Horse, Kim Crawford, Estancia, Toasted Head, Clos du Bois, Ravenswood, Jackson-Triggs, Blackstone, Ruffino, Nobilo, Rex Goliath, Hogue, Alice White, Hardys, Kumala, Black Box, Banrock Station, Vendange, Arbor Mist, and Stowells. It also exports its wine products to other wine consuming markets worldwide. In addition, this division produces and markets cider under Blackthorn and Gaymer’s Olde English brands in the United Kingdom; wine kits and beverage alcohol refreshment coolers in Canada; and bulk wine and other related products and services. The Constellation Spirits division produces, bottles, imports, and markets distilled spirits under Black Velvet, Chi-Chi’s prepared cocktails, Barton, Sköl, Fleischmann’s, Canadian LTD, Montezuma, Ten High, Mr. Boston, and Inver House brands. The Crown Imports division imports, markets, and sells Corona Extra, Corona Light, Coronita, Modelo Especial, Pacifico, Negra Modelo, St. Pauli Girl, and Tsingtao brands of imported beer in the United States. Constellation Brands distributes its products through wholesale distributors, and state and provincial alcoholic beverage control agencies; and directly to off-premise accounts comprising retail chains and on-premise accounts, such as hotels, restaurants, pubs, clubs, and wholesalers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Fairport, New York.
$18.83 (06/29/08)
