The two champagne houses Piper Heidsieck and Charles Heidsieck have been sold. The previous owner, Rémy Cointreau, could not get the two champagne producers sufficiently profitable and have chosen to divest them. The buyer is a French family owned company called EPI who paid 412 M euro for the two houses, according to reports in Wine Business Monthly & Shanken Daily News.
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