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General pics The LIWF celebrates its 30th anniversary in May 2010, and you can be sure that the world's most important wine trade event will once again deliver a remarkable experience.

For importers, merchants, producers, agents, restaurateurs, wholesalers, sommeliers, in fact everyone whose work brings them in direct contact with wine and spirits, no other event offers the same opportunity to taste, meet with suppliers and winemakers and get down to business as the LIWF.

Whether you produce wine, import wine, retail wine or serve wine, the London International Wine Fair is about discovery, creating opportunity and bettering your business.

It's often been said that the London International Wine Fair is the single most important event in the international wine and spirits calendar. No other trade event has the same diversity of wine and spirits without any bias towards a particular country or region. It's as if the global wine business has come together for three days.

And being free to visit and a strictly trade-only event, it's focused purely on business.

We look forward to welcoming you to ExCeL London in May.

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FRANCE: Remy Cointreau to cut Piper-Heidsieck jobs: Remy Cointreau plans to cut around a quarter of jobs at Champagne division Piper-Heidsieck, following a tough time for Champagne in the economic downturn.
ETHIOPIA: Castel plots first wine harvest in 2010: French group Castel is expecting to harvest its first wine crop in Ethiopia later this year having planted vines covering around 125 hectares in May 2008.
FRANCE: Weak exports drag Champagne down in '09 - figures: Champagne sales fell by 9% to 293.3m bottles in 2009, as a stable performance in France failed to offset weaker demand in export markets, show official figures from trade body Comité Interprofessionnel des Vins de Champagne (CIVC).
UK: Advertisers "disappointed" by product placement u-turn: A proposed u-turn on the relaxing of rules for the placement of food and drink products in TV programmes in the UK is "disappointing", advertisers have said.
UK: Alcohol product placement set for scrapheap: Plans to allow alcoholic drinks firms to pay to have their products visible in television programmes look set to be scrapped.
UK: WaverleyTBS to shed more jobs: WaverleyTBS, the UK drinks supplier, plans to cut around 15% of its workforce as part of a restructuring programme to help it adapt to tough market conditions.
FRANCE: Champagne, Cognac dampen LVMH in '09: Lower demand for Champagne weighed heavily on French luxury goods group Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) in 2009, despite signs of a recovery in the fourth quarter.
FRANCE: China overtakes UK as Castel's top export market: China has dethroned the UK to become the premier export market by volume for French wine giant Castel.
US: Scheid Vineyards cuts losses, seals bank deal: Scheid Vineyards cut net losses in the first nine months of 2009 and is on a firmer financial footing after securing renewed support from its banks.
just the round-up - The week in drinks: The top ten stories published on just-drinks this week:
UK: Cockburns of Leith rescued from the brink: Collapsed Cockburns of Leith, the oldest surviving wine merchant in Scotland, has been bought out by Edinburgh Wine Importers, a wholesaler controlled by Sir David Murray.
FRANCE: Jeanjean, Laroche complete wine merger: French wine firms Jeanjean and Laroche have completed a merger deal that will see their combined business become France's third largest wine producer.
What if. 2020 is for alcohol what 2010 is for the tobacco industry?: Continuing his series of quarterly columns assessing potential shocks which the drinks sector may face, Chris Hart, a partner at business performance consultancy McKinney Rogers, considers what would happen if the next ten years bring dramatic social changes that challenge the drinks sector in the way the past ten years have done for tobacco.
ARGENTINA: Malbec demand drives wine export rise: Strong demand for Malbec helped Argentina to grow wine exports by value and volume in 2009, official figures show.
UK: Virgin Wines teams up with Lovefilm.com: Virgin Wines has lined up a partnership with entertainment rental website Lovefilm in the UK.
Product Launch - US: Santa Barbara Wine Company's Pinot Noir, Chardonnay: Santa Barbara Wine Company's Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
Research - UK: Mixing alcohol and politics: All political parties are in 'full-on' election mode and this means ramping up activity to win support and votes across the country. Key political figures are making their views heard by outlining their proposals to improve their chances at the polls. As part of this, alcohol and its consumption have jumped to the top of the political agenda. We've seen various parties use alcohol to almost outdo each other in the media with different plans to cut binge drinking and alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour, which costs the UK millions of pounds each year. What can we actually expect? Tim Wilson, managing director of the Wilson Drinks Report considers the options.
UK: Diageo silent on deal offer to leave UK: Diageo has declined to comment on a report that authorities in Switzerland have offered the drinks giant incentives to switch its corporate headquarters to the country from the UK.
FRANCE: US gives Côtes de Provence wine a rosé H1: Exports of Côtes de Provence wines to the US increased by close to 18.5% in the first half of 2009 on the same period the previous year, to 7,153 hectolitres.
UK: Foster's Group readies sports push for Wolf Blass: Foster's Group has lined up a sport-themed promotional push for its Australian wine brand Wolf Blass in the UK.

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