https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2010/12/14/seven-year-itch-dbr-lafite-summergate-end-partnership-brand-to-join-asc/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:15:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2010/12/14/seven-year-itch-dbr-lafite-summergate-end-partnership-brand-to-join-asc/#comment-63773 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:15:53 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=1951#comment-63773 Interesting to see how both ASC and Summergate have been sold or asked to be sold, respectively. Seems getting big in China has a price and one can’t keep the business as usual. Sooner or later the big fish eating the small fish…

]]> https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2010/12/14/seven-year-itch-dbr-lafite-summergate-end-partnership-brand-to-join-asc/#comment-63532 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:21:51 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/?p=1951#comment-63532 […] left their Chinese importer and distributor, Summergate, after seven years. Jim Boyce in Beijing talked with Ian Ford, an American and founding partner of Summergate. Ford says that they rebuffed Lafite’s offer […]

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