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Chapel Down Group PLC

  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Lex
    Chapel Down’s sale would reflect British wine going global Premium content

    Aim-listed UK wine producer’s plans will require investors with deeper pockets to step up to the bar

    Pickers harvest chardonnay grapes at a Chapel Down vineyard
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    English winemaker Chapel Down considers sale

    Sparkling wine specialist launches review of long-term funding options to invest in new vineyards

    Close-up of an employee removing a sample of grape juice from an oak ageing barrel at a Chapel Down vineyard
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    English wine producer Chapel Down admitted to Aim market

    Sparkling wine specialist has benefited from better harvests because of hot summers and events sponsorship

    A glass of wine
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Hotter weather boosts growth prospects for English winemaker Chapel Down

    Reluctant beneficiary of climate change says temperature rises will double the size of its business by 2026

    Freshly picked grapes are emptied in to storage crates at a Chapel Down vineyard
  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Chapel Down returns to profit as Britons snap up English sparkling wine

    Sales at Kent winemaker climb as champagne drinkers embrace local producers

    Chapel Down sparkling wine
  • Friday, 4 June, 2021
    English winemaker Chapel Down seeks to cash in on sparkling sales

    Kent vineyard announces £7m fundraising and £15m credit facility against its stock of bottles

    A bottle of Chapel Down sparkling wine
  • Friday, 28 September, 2018
    LexRetail & Consumer industry
    The gin craze: sloe learners Premium content

    Market is worth £2bn but double-digit sales growth of recent years is forecast to drop

    Gin and tonic ID 54297659 © Igorr | Dreamstime.com Gin and tonic with lemon and ice on wooden table
  • Friday, 17 August, 2018
    Next Act
    Lovely bubbly: a case for investment in English sparkling wine

    Serious investors have added fizz to their portfolios: is it time do likewise?

    Migrant workers from Romania leaf-stripping at Gusbourne Estate vineyard in Kent, one of the rising stars of English sparkling wine
  • Saturday, 11 August, 2018
    LexMergers & Acquisitions
    English wine: working on sunshine Premium content

    Weather trends are in growers’ favour and help to explain the surge in vines planted

    Picture By Jim Wileman - Bob Lindo pictured in the Camel Valley Vineyard, near Bodmin, Cornwall.
  • Monday, 22 August, 2016
    UK agriculture
    Plumpton College spreads global roots for English wine expertise

    The training ground with an international alumni network and students producing award-winning wines

    Plumpton Wine college in Sussex. For Business Life. To go with Miranda Green copy. Chris Foss, curriculum manager of the wine division at Plimpton College.
  • Thursday, 3 March, 2016
    FT MagazineJancis Robinson
    English sparkling wine

    ‘England’s army of vignerons is bullish at the moment. The total area of Britain under vine has doubled in the past seven years’

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2015
    European companies
    British winemakers seek to ride bubble in interest

    Popularity of domestic labels boosted by French and fervour for fizz

    Workers pick Pinot Noir grapes from the vines at Chapel Down Wine's Tenterden Vineyard, in Tenterden, Kent, U.K., on Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. Winemaking in the U.K. is being affected by global warming, and some of the nation's southern regions may become too hot to grow wine grapes by 2080 if the phenomenon continues unabated, said Richard Selley, a retired professor of geology at London's Imperial College. Photographer: Ady Kerry/Bloomberg News
  • Thursday, 24 September, 2015
    LombardRetail & Consumer industry
    Drax discards White Rose as UK policy shifts from green to Amber

    Energy company quits consortium hoping to build power and carbon capture plant

    Drax Power Station near Selby
  • Thursday, 24 September, 2015
    UK companies
    Cool UK summer puts fizz in English wine

    Chapel Down, one of the biggest producers, reports first-half sales and gross profits up a third

    Bottles of Chapel Down Wine are displayed on the shelves in the shop at Tenterden Vineyard, in Tenterden, Kent, U.K., on Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. The U.K. has nearly 400 commercial vineyards in England and Wales, covering about 2,000 acres of land. Photographer: Ady Kerry/Bloomberg News
  • Friday, 22 May, 2015
    Investments
    How to invest in English wine

    A promising growth story that attracts a frothy premium for investors

    UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 12: Green grapes on vine and grapevine for white wine production at Biddenden English Vineyards in Kent, England, UK (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)
  • Sunday, 7 December, 2014
    UK economy
    Equity crowdfunding thrives despite high risks

    Investors put further £40m into fledgling sector this year despite watchdog’s warning

    Jo Arckle, a winery helper at the Chapel Down Winery near Tenterden, Kent, picks Rondo grapes during their harvest following the long hot summer this year which created good growing conditions and the prospect of a bountiful crop of quality grapes.
  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2014
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Wine producer Chapel Down reaps record harvest

    Kent-based company sees total tonnage of fruit up 40% on 2013

    Workers pick Pinot Noir grapes from the vines at Chapel Down Wine's Tenterden Vineyard, in Tenterden, Kent, U.K., on Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. Winemaking in the U.K. is being affected by global warming, and some of the nation's southern regions may become too hot to grow wine grapes by 2080 if the phenomenon continues unabated, said Richard Selley, a retired professor of geology at London's Imperial College. Photographer: Ady Kerry/Bloomberg News
  • Thursday, 9 October, 2014
    Entrepreneurship
    More small companies are raising equity through crowdfunding

    How Chapel Down, the winemaker, is raising funds through crowdfunding

  • Monday, 6 October, 2014
    Peer-to-peer lending
    UK’s new finance regulations face their first big test in crowdfunding

    The UK has led a revolution in lending, with a crowdfunding market worth £1bn last year. Will the FCA rules pop the bubble?

  • Friday, 3 October, 2014
    Investments
    Winemaker toasts crowdfunding record

    Chapel Down raises £3.95m despite frothy valuation

  • Thursday, 25 September, 2014
    FT AlphavilleDan McCrum
    Crowdfunded, fruity and English
  • Monday, 8 September, 2014
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Chapel Down launches crowdfunding push
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2014
    Retail & Consumer industry
    English summers rain on Chapel Down profit
    Chapel Down Winery feature
  • Monday, 25 November, 2013
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Record wine harvest at UK’s Chapel Down points to a vintage year
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