BackgroundCCW was formed in 1981 from the merger of two Riverland co-operatives – Berri Co-op Winery & Distillery Ltd and Renmano Wines Co-op Ltd – with the main aim to produce wine from shareholders’ fruit and offer a satisfactory return to CCW growers on fruit delivery.
In 1989 CCW was restructured, forming the publicly unlisted company Berri Renmano Limited, now Constellation Wines Australia "CWAU", (formerly Hardy Wine Company Limited) and shifted its equity holding into the International Wine Investment Fund (formerly the Wine Trust of Australia). CCW has secured investments to provide funding to meet CCW’s operational costs.
As a result of the structural changes, CCW’s main business activity became that of a grape trader providing substantial tonnages of grapes from the Riverland region under a preferred supplier agreement.
Currently CWAU receives in excess of 200,000 tonnes of grapes a year from CCW under the preferred supplier agreement.
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