The City: Sharing the wealth
08 Sep 2005
Why buy shares? Essentially for dividend payments and capital growth (share-price rises) that, combined, will outstrip the return of putting your money in the bank and pay a premium to reward...

View issue Harpers, 9 September 2005

Remember Super-Tuscans?
08 Sep 2005
It was only yesterday, it seems, that Super-Tuscans were flying high, write Nicolas Belfrage MW and Franco Ziliani. They were the rebel wines, the ones that broke the rules and whirled...

View issue Harpers, 9 September 2005

The City: The agony of the analysts
15 Sep 2005
The thing investors fear most is uncertainty. Even disastrous news is usually quantifiable and can thus be priced, but a leap into the unknown causes deep anxiety. Take licensed premises. They...

View issue Harpers, 16 September 2005

The City: It’s all about the money
22 Sep 2005
Ask any Frenchman to name five famous Belgians, and one of the answers is likely to be Albert Frère. The billionaire who began as a nail merchant has been a great...

View issue Harpers, 23 September 2005

101 classifications
23 Sep 2005
Just when you thought it was safe to open a magazine without coming across yet another bloody list of the greatest whatevers of all-time, ever, I’d like to introduce you to...

View issue Harpers, 23 September 2005

French cricket
23 Sep 2005
French wine producers have such a huge advantage over the Aussies, South Africans, Chileans, Californians and so on, yet only the scandalously overlooked vignerons of Saumur-Champigny have had the bravura bonhomie...

View issue Harpers, 23 September 2005

The City: Pernod keeps on growing
30 Sep 2005
‘We try harder.’ The Avis slogan is one Pernod Ricard would like to adopt now that the takeover of Allied Domecq is complete, says Ron Emler. Chairman Patrick Ricard even believes...

View issue Harpers, 30 September 2005

Finishing school
30 Sep 2005
Judging by the recent Whisky Live event in Glasgow, the malt-whisky business remains as innovative as ever, especially in the wood-finish department. ...

View issue Harpers, 30 September 2005

The City: Vincor blimey!
07 Oct 2005
With the global wine and spirits business consolidating further, Robert Sands, the chairman and CEO of Constellation Brands, is determined not to be left on the sidelines, says Ron Emler. ...

View issue Harpers, 7 October 2005

Low yields, low prices
07 Oct 2005
The harvest of 2005 will certainly not be as big as that of 2004 – the long dry spell over parts of southern France has seen to that. But the authorities...

View issue Harpers, 7 October 2005