By Liz Alderman Reporting from Paris The turmoil of a trade war between China and Europe burst open this week as hundreds of employees at the Hennessy cognac factory in southwest France on ...

Hennessy management told employee representatives on Tuesday that it planned to first send a sample shipment of 1,000 litres of its very special old pale (VSOP) cognac to China to test the product ...

Cognacs that undergo at least 10 years of aging are designated XO (Extra Old). In the last few years ... of The Prince of Wales and future King George IV of Great Britain and is the first such cognac ...

Cognac is a type of brandy that is produced in the Cognac region of France. It is made by distilling wine in copper stills, and then aging the resulting spirit in oak barrels for a minimum of two ...

Hennessy management told employee representatives on Tuesday that it planned to first send a sample shipment of 1,000 litres of its very special old pale (VSOP) cognac to China to test the product’s ...

PARIS/RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Hennessy staff extended a strike on Wednesday over its plans to bottle cognac in China to circumvent import tariffs, after French President Emmanuel Macron ...

Hundreds of employees of French cognac maker Hennessy, part of the LVMH group luxury empire, went on strike on Tuesday to protest measures the brand plans to employ to circumvent Chinese tariffs ...

Hennessy management told employee representatives on Tuesday that it planned to first send a sample shipment of 1,000 liters of its very special old pale (VSOP) cognac to China to test the product’s ...

Cognac workers threatened to resume strikes next week after LVMH’s Hennessy said it’s studying the option of bottling in China in a bid to avoid tariffs the country recently imposed on ...

The strike at the Hennessy plant in the town of Cognac, which employs 1,100 people, is open-ended, though a source close to Hennessy, asking not to be named, said that "dialogue is possible." ...