Piper-Heidsieck
| Champagne Piper-Heidsieck
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| legal form | SAS (simplified AG (France)) |
| founding | 1785 |
| Seat | Reims (France) |
| management | Anne-Charlotte Amory (Chair of the Board of Directors) |
| Number of employees | 156 |
| sales | € 90 million (2009) |
| Branch | luxury |
| Website | www.Piper-Heidsieck.com |
Piper-Heidsieck is a champagne manufacturer based in Reims .
history
Christian Heidsieck, a nephew of the founder of the champagne dynasty Florenz-Ludwig Heidsieck and at the same time the younger brother of Charles-Henri Heidsieck, whom Florenz-Ludwig accepted into his company in 1805, was only accepted into the Heidsieck champagne house in 1808.
Christian Heidsieck opened his own champagne house in 1834, but died completely unexpectedly the following year. His wife continued to run the champagne house under the name Veuve Heidsieck until she married her brother-in-law Henri-Guillaume Piper in 1838, who was also related to the founding patron Florens-Louis Heidsieck.
The Piper-Heidsieck company had a very successful representative in America in Jean-Claude Kunkelmann, who greatly expanded the brand there. After his return to Reims, Jean-Claude Kunkelmann invested part of his fortune in the champagne house. When Henri Piper died in 1870, he inherited the company, which is now Kunkelmann & Cie. called. Jean-Claude Kunkelmann bequeathed the company to his son Ferdinand Kunkelmann in 1881, whose daughter married Jean Marquis de Suarez d'Aulan . Kunkelmann & Cie. was appointed purveyor to the imperial court .
The Marquise and the Marquis de Suarez d'Aulan ran the inherited champagne house together and called it Piper-Heidsieck again. In 1944 the Marquis fell in World War II. One of their children, the son Francois d'Aulan, later ran the house, while the widow later married General d'Alès . Of the other three children Ghislaine, Philippe and Chatherine, Chatherine is particularly well-known, as she married Claude Taittinger, boss of the Taittinger champagne house .
In 1989 Piper-Heidsieck was taken over by the second largest French wine and spirits group, Rémy Cointreau , which had already bought the Charles Heidsieck brand in 1985 . In March 2011, Rémy Cointreau announced that it would sell both brands to the Descours family holding EPI for EUR 410 million. The subsequent transaction included 50 hectares of vineyards.
Literature and Sources
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rémy Cointreau sells Heidsieck . In: Börsen-Zeitung of March 2, 2011
