A California wine producer founded by the Franzia family as a distressed-winery buyout shop.
Acquired · Oct 26It bought the bankrupt Charles Shaw label for $27,000 and used a 2001 wine glut to make Two Buck Chuck at $1.99 for Trader Joe's. Sales passed 400 million bottles by 2009 and 800 million three years later.
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