Day: August 24, 2008

 Worrying news from Pernod Ricard, who have started to trial a new lighter version of it’s G.H. Mumm bottles. The traditional bottles of champers weigh about 2 kilos when full, of which 900gr (almost half) is the bottle. The rising cost of transportation and glass has made the big champagne makers wonder about breaking the final taboo – the traditional champagne bottle. G.H. Mumm has sent out a trial version of some 2.5 million bottles, Continue reading Champagne makers experiment with lighter bottles!!!→

An interesting news snippet brought to my attention from Expansion, the Spanish financial newspaper (19th August): Hacienda has announced that this year it will be increasing the number of random checks on real estate agents by 65%, in order to root out “under the counter” commissions and black money purchases. They expect to carry out 90.519 checks this year, which means there should be a drop in Porsche sales soon. While trying to find out Continue reading Hacienda to investigate more real estate agencies→