Word: clicquot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speak for the Vuitton interests, which control 30% of the merged firm. Married to a Vuitton heiress, Racamier led the concern for the previous decade and propelled sales from less than $15 million in 1977 to more than $380 million in 1987. He engineered Vuitton's purchase of Veuve Clicquot champagne and Givenchy perfumes in March 1987, and last June agreed to acquire Givenchy fashions this fall. From the start, Chevalier and Racamier had trouble accepting the notion of a true merger of their companies. Each man continued to maintain a personal fiefdom, with separate corporate staffs, public relations departments...
...towards Douglas Marlette, Victor Kohutka and John Jenrette. A garland of holly for Stanislaw Baranczak, For William F. Buckley and also Burt Bachrach. In Cambridge we drink to the Sullivans' city--David's, Walter's, James's, and Al Vellucci's. Bottle upon bottle, we'll uncork the Veuve Clicquot And raise our glasses in the air for everyone we know. For A. Simone Reagor, Eugene Genovese, Lyndon Larouche and Aglaia Senese, Ned Coll, Larry Bird, Meryl Streep and Abbie Hoffman, Ben Schatz, Richard Frye, Cyrus Vance and Stanley Hoffmann, Baruj Benacerraf, Muhammad Ali, Simon Schama and Selwyn Cudjoe, Zbigniew...