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'''The Sazerac Company''' is a large privately held and family-operated alcoholic beverages company with headquarters in [[Metairie, Louisiana]].<ref name = SazeracWeb>[http://www.sazerac.com/company.aspx The Sazerac Company Web Site]. (Access date December 6, 2010.)</ref><ref name = BloombergProfile/><ref name ="HooverProfile">{{cite web |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company/Sazerac_Company_Inc/hstsci-1.html |title=Hoover's Company Profiles: Sazerac Company, Inc. |accessdate=December 5, 2010}}</ref>
'''The Sazerac Company''' is a large privately held and family-operated alcoholic beverages company with headquarters in [[Metairie, Louisiana]].<ref name = SazeracWeb>[http://www.sazerac.com/company.aspx The Sazerac Company Web Site]. (Access date December 6, 2010.)</ref><ref name = BloombergProfile/><ref name ="HooverProfile">{{cite web |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company/Sazerac_Company_Inc/hstsci-1.html |title=Hoover's Company Profiles: Sazerac Company, Inc. |accessdate=December 5, 2010}}</ref>
It is the largest distilling company in the United States.<ref>[http://www.wswa.org/news.php?NewsID=21&ArticleID=26 Goldring to Receive Lifetime Leadership Award at WSWA Annual Convention]", Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, December 21, 2010.</ref> It owns and produces a large and diversified portfolio of beverage brands, and it owns and operates a number of distilling companies. Its distilleries include the [[Barton Brands|Barton Distillery]] (in [[Bardstown, Kentucky]]), the [[Buffalo Trace Distillery]] (in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]]), and the [[A. Smith Bowman Distillery]] (a microdistillery in [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]])."<ref name = SazeracWeb/><ref name = BloombergProfile/><ref name ="HooverProfile"/> The products of the company and its subsidiaries include various types of whiskey, vodka, gin, tequila, rum, brandy, cognac, cocktails, cordials, liqueurs, "shooters", and wine.<ref name = SazeracWeb/><ref name = BloombergProfile>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=8033976 Sazerac Company, Inc.], ''Bloomberg Businessweek''. (Access date December 4, 2010.)</ref><ref name = HooverProfile/> The company is reportedly controlled by the chairman of its Board of Directors, William Goldring.<ref name ="HooverProfile"/><ref>Tulane University Freeman School of Business, [http://www.freeman.tulane.edu/news/2003/donorhonor.php Honor Roll of Donors], Last updated November 19, 2008. (Access date December 5, 2010.)</ref><ref>Clancy DuBos, [http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/new-orleanian-of-the-year-bill-goldring/Content?oid=1242335 New Orleanian of the Year Bill Goldring], ''Gambit Weekly: Best of New Orleans'', January 6, 2004. (Access date December 6, 2010.)</ref>
It is the largest distilling company in the United States.<ref>[http://www.wswa.org/news.php?NewsID=21&ArticleID=26 It owns and produces a large and diversified portfolio of beverage brands, and it owns and operates a number of distilling companies. Its distilleries include the [[Barton Brands|Barton Distillery]] (in [[Bardstown, Kentucky]]), the [[Buffalo Trace Distillery]] (in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]]), and the [[A. Smith Bowman Distillery]] (a microdistillery in [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]])."<ref name = SazeracWeb/><ref name = BloombergProfile/><ref name ="HooverProfile"/> The products of the company and its subsidiaries include various types of whiskey, vodka, gin, tequila, rum, brandy, cognac, cocktails, cordials, liqueurs, "shooters", and wine.<ref name = SazeracWeb/><ref name = BloombergProfile>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=8033976 Sazerac Company, Inc.], ''Bloomberg Businessweek''. In June 2009, the company stated that the main focus of its business is [[bourbon whiskey|bourbon]] (a product that is primarily distilled, aged, and bottled in [[Kentucky]]), and its activities in New Orleans are mostly administrative.<ref>Kimberly Quillen, [http://blog.nola.com/tpmoney/2009/06/sazerac_company_to_expand_oper.html Sazerac Company to expand operations, work force in Kentucky], ''The Times-Picayune blog'', June 21, 2010. (Access date December 6, 2010.)</ref>

In June 2009, the company stated that the main focus of its business is [[bourbon whiskey|bourbon]] (a product that is primarily distilled, aged, and bottled in [[Kentucky]]), and its activities in New Orleans are mostly administrative.<ref>Kimberly Quillen, [http://blog.nola.com/tpmoney/2009/06/sazerac_company_to_expand_oper.html Sazerac Company to expand operations, work force in Kentucky], ''The Times-Picayune blog'', June 21, 2010. (Access date December 6, 2010.)</ref>


==History==
==History==

Revision as of 18:08, 21 March 2013

Sazerac Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryDrink
Founded1850 (1850)
FounderThomas H. Handy
HeadquartersMetairie, Louisiana, United States
ProductsSpirits
WebsiteSazerac Company

The Sazerac Company is a large privately held and family-operated alcoholic beverages company with headquarters in Metairie, Louisiana.[1][2][3] It is the largest distilling company in the United States.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

History

The company primarily traces its founding to the purchase of a bar known as the Sazerac Coffee House in 1869 by Thomas H. Handy[1] (and Bloomberg Businessweek similarly lists the founding date of the company as 1870[2]). After this purchase, Handy's company began to acquire and market brands of liquor. According to the company, the Sazerac Coffee House itself was named after a cocktail called the Sazerac that was created in the mid-1800s by a Creole immigrant named Antoine Peychaud, who operated a pharmacy on the French Quarter's Royal Street in 1838.[1] The company publishes a Sazerac recipe and produces a Peychaud's Bitters named after Peychaud, which is an essential ingredient in the Sazerac cocktail.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c The Sazerac Company Web Site. (Access date December 6, 2010.)
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference BloombergProfile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Hoover's Company Profiles: Sazerac Company, Inc". Retrieved December 5, 2010.
  4. ^ New Orleans Declares Sazerac Its Cocktail of Choice, National Public Radio All Things Considered, June 26, 2008. (Access date December 6, 2010.)
  5. ^ The Sazerac — Official Cocktail of New Orleans: How the Sazerac Cocktail Came to Be, on Sazerac Company web site. (Access date December 6, 2010.)
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