Constellation Brands' Shares Pop on Strong Beer Performance and Improved Wine Prospects
Narrow-moat Constellation Brands' efforts to reshape its wine and spirits business (36% of sales), which posted a nearly 8% sales decline in the fourth quarter due to lackluster wine performance, seem to have bolstered confidence in its prospects, sending the shares up roughly 7% on April 4. Also, on April 3, Constellation announced it signed an agreement with E. & J. Gallo Winery to sell around 30 brands from its wine and spirits portfolio (primary at the $11 and below price point) for $1.7...Constellation Brands is an international beverage alcohol company. The company is a producer and marketer of beer, wine and spirits with operations in the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, Italy and Canada. The company has two segments: Beer, in which the company is engaged in the U.S. beer market that includes the imported, craft, domestic super premium, and alternative beverage alcohol categories and it has the right to import, market and sell these Mexican beer brands in the U.S.; and Wine and Spirits, in which its wine portfolio is supported by grapes purchased from independent growers, primarily in the U.S., New Zealand and Chile, and vineyard holdings in the U.S., New Zealand and Italy.
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