Gruppo Campari will report its full-year results on Thursday (7 March). Here just-drinks takes a look back at the group’s highs and lows in its last financial quarter, plus its financial progress last year.
- In October, the group announced it was raising EUR400m (US$524.3m) from the issue of bonds that will trade on Luxembourg’s stock exchange.
- In November, the company revealed it had launched a US$414.8m offer to take full control of Lascelles deMercado & Co, parent company of the Appleton Estate and Wray & Nephew rum brands.
- Campari was floated as a possible buyer of Whyte & Mackay, if the business gets sold off in the wake of Diageo’s United Spirits deal.
- The group’s North American arm was in poaching mode as it appointed the head of Jose Cuervo International as its MD, a newly-created role
- In December, Campari completed its deal to take control of Lascelles deMercado & Co