Word: coops
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...partnership to improve the quality of wine produced at the local growers' cooperative. In concrete terms, that meant annual payments to growers of $7,000 for each hectare they devoted to the partnership wine, plus a capital injection of $400,000 over five years to modernize the coop's equipment. So the Americans were stunned when the announcement of the project was greeted by storms of protest from an unlikely coalition of hunters, ecologists and communists. "It was as if they were arriving in an underdeveloped country and starting from scratch," fumes Manuel Diaz, the communist elected mayor of Aniane...
...local winegrowers, the answer to that question is yes. "We urgently need to be accompanied by a group of Mondavi's caliber," says Jacques Bonnier, director of the growers' cooperative. The small producers who bring their grapes to the coop are still engaged in high-volume production, a sector that is wilting in the face of New World competition. The Mondavi deal offered them financial support as they moved into quality wine-making plus access to a worldwide sales network. "It was a fabulous opportunity," says Bonnier. "Today we're looking at a catastrophe...
...work successfully in France, you've got to be totally sensitive to local culture and integrated into the community," concedes its representive in France, David Pearson. And Aniane's voters may have let the future slip through their fingers. "Fifty percent of the growers who sell to the coop are going to disappear," says Laurent Vaillé, owner of La Grange des Pères. "Mondavi was their last chance, the only thing that was going to help the coop stay alive. Mondavi would have shone a spotlight on Languedoc throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. There's no one else...
...Eleven, Staples, Pizzeria Uno, Peet’s Coffee, American Express Travel, the House of Blues, the Vitamin Shoppe, CVS, Abercrombie & Fitch, Pacific Sunwear, Sunglass Hut, Urban Outfitters, Tower Records, two different Breugger’s Bagels stores, and—just barely—the Harvard Coop (turned Barnes & Noble college superstore...
Around noon, the committee made its final decision. Gagnon and the two other Overseers stood and left: their job was done. Gagnon headed to the Coop to buy a Harvard sweatshirt. Oldenburg and Everhart went to check out of their hotels, leaving the Corporation alone for their regularly scheduled afternoon meeting...