1st Edition

The Business of Champagne A Delicate Balance

Edited By Steve Charters Copyright 2012
    240 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    240 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    The world of champagne offers a fascinating insight into the complexity of modern business management and marketing. Champagne is at the same time a wine, a luxury product and a regional brand – it is tied to the place from which it comes, and can be made nowhere else. It therefore highlights a range of characteristics which make it interesting to the modern business world.

    This is the first book to offer a complete overview of the way in which champagne as a product is organized, managed and marketed and what its future prospects are. The book covers the entire range of issues surrounding the management of the champagne industry by reviewing the current context of champagne (structural, economic and legal), the role of ‘place’ (identity and terroir and tourism), marketing the ‘myth’ of champagne (image and competitive advantage) and the management of the industry (accountability, people and the territorial brand). The book brings together leading academics and examines the champagne region from multidisciplinary perspectives.

    Examining the champagne region provides insight into a range of management, production-management, branding and consumer-related issues and will be of interest to students, researchers and academics interested in Gastronomy, Wine Studies, Tourism, Hospitality, Marketing and Business.

    Introduction  Section One: Context  1. The Organization of Champagne: A Historical and Structural Introduction Steve Charters  2. Producing Champagne Philippe Jeandet and Steve Charters  3. The Legal Context of Champagne Theo Georgopoulos  4. The Economic Perspective on Champagne David Menival  Section Two: The Place  5. A Place of Paradox: Champagne as it is Presented to the Outsider Richard Mitchell  6. Mobilising Brands and Terroir in Champagne  Nick Lewis  Section Three: Creating the Myth and Selling the Wine  7. Champagne’s Mystique, or Complexity and Consumer Confusion Tim Dodd  8. The Future of the Champagne Brand Larry Lockshin  9. Distributing Champagne Olivier Dusautoir and Steve Charters  Section Four: Managing the Industry  10. Creating and Sustaining a Competitive Advantage Over Time Martin Kunc  11. Strategic Implementation: Accounting to Accountability in Champagne Al Seaman  12. Exploding Bottles: Exploring the Culture and Workforce of Champagne Liz Thach  Section Five: Reflecting on Champagne  13. Conclusions  Steve Charters and David Menival  References  Index

    Biography

    Steve Charters is Chair of Champagne Management and Director of the Reims Research Centre for Wine-Place-Value, France, as well as being a Master of Wine.