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Article: Wine merchant disappears as parent announces shake-up
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- May 10, 2009
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TM ROBERTSON, one of Scotland's oldest wine merchants, has
disappeared from the high street amid a restructuring by its parent
company.
Sources close to the wine merchant, which supplies a clutch of
Scottish institutions such as Muirfield golf club, say that
following a back office relocation to Yorkshire and the departure of
some of its senior sales staff it will now be renamed Berkmann Wine
Cellars.
In a letter sent out to the trade by Berkmann sales director
Bruno Ricard it explains that it will be fully integrated into
Berkmann Wine Cellars. It read: "Westminster is now largely
controlled by Scotsmen, so we thought you might not object if we
were to integrate TMR and change the name to ...