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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 272
Utgivningsdatum: 2019-04-04
Upplaga: Main
Förlag: Profile Editions
Illustratör/Fotograf: 150 colour and black and white images
Illustrationer: 150 colour and black and white images
Dimensioner: 249 x 193 x 25 mm
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ISBN: 9781788161251

Direct

Name: Direct
Price: 320.00 SEK
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Author: Tony Laithwaite
ISBN: 9781788161251

Tony Laithwaite My Story

av Tony Laithwaite

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019-04-04

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Direct Wines, The Sunday Times Wine Club, Laithwaites or just Wine People. Known by various names over the last 50 years, Laithwaites is now the top wine company in the UK and a leading example of a thriving family business turned empire. In the 1960s young geography student Tony Laithwaite took a job washing wine bottles in Bordeaux and soon fell head-over-heels in love with the wine and the people who make it. After his inspiring time in Bordeaux, he took a van stocked with his favourite French wines back to the UK to share with friends and neighbours at home as part of a small start-up business. He wrote to Harold Evans at the Times to persuade him of the superior quality of his imported wine, and they soon joined forces to set up the hugely successful Sunday Times Wine Club. It wasn't long before hundreds of small wineries around the world were queuing to take part in Tony's venture, which transformed from a tiny operation to a massive business virtually overnight. Today, nearly 50 years on from its foundation in 1969, Laithwaites' parent company Direct Wines is the world's number one home-delivery wine merchant with operations in the UK, US and Australia and New Zealand. Direct: Tony Laithwaite My Story is not just the remarkable story of a wine company, or its wines, but a tale of the people who have created its success. Filled with rich archive imagery and newly commissioned illustrations by David Eldridge, as well as anecdotes of Tony's early years in France, this inspirational memoir is perfect to enjoy with your favourite bottle of wine.

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Direct is an entertaining, occasionally chippy account of his journey from selling wine from a railway arch in Windsor to owning the biggest online wine retailer in the world. -- Henry Jeffreys * Spectator *

Born in Lancashire and now based in South Oxfordshire, Tony Laithwaite founded the original 'Bordeaux Direct' company (now Laithwaites) in 1969. he has followed his passion for half a century, working in the vineyards of Bordeaux in the 1960s and now co-chairing the UK's biggest wine company with his wife Barbara. This is his first-hand account of how he turned a family business into a wine empire.