Former Vinexpo chief and DBR Lafite director Guillaume Deglise has been appointed to a dual role at Champagne Henriot and the Terroirs et Vignerons de Champagne (TEVC). The move will see Deglise become the managing director of Henriot at the same time as being the group head of global development for TEVC, Champagne’s largest cooperative group. marks a return to Champagne for the well-known wine executive, who spent time working at both Bollinger and Laurent-Perrier in Champagne before his five-year stint as Vinexpo’s CEO and fair organiser. db understands his new role at TECV, which owns Nicolas Feuillate, is two-fold: in addition to his role as managing director of Champagne Henriot, working with the existing executive committee, he will head up business development across the entire TEVC portfolio, with responsibility for developing the international exports of all of its brands. The brands include Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte, which has traditionally been very strong in the domestic market with international sales of around 43%, Champagne Castelnau and two Reims-based negociant houses, Champagne Abelé 1757 (which it acquired from the Freixenet Group in 2019) and Champagne Henriot. Herriot was sold to TEVC in September 2023 from Artémis Domaines, only a year after the Pinault family acquired it through its merger with Maisons & Domaines Henriot. The deal was announced in March last year, and was designed to complement the broad international success of Champagne Nicolas Feuillatt, allowing TEVC to align Henriot’s négociant business with the top fruit from its major regional cooperatives,
This Article was originally published on The Drink Business - Fine Wine
