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The name was changed to Schenley Industries in 1949. It was one of the "Big Four", which dominated liquor sales, and included Seagram, National Distillers and Hiram Walker. [5] Schenley was acquired by the financier Meshulam Riklis in 1968. He sold the company to Guinness in 1987. Schenley had formerly imported Guinness into the United States. [6]
Lewis Solon Rosenstiel (21 July 1891 – 21 January 1976) was the founder of Schenley Industries, an American liquor company, and a philanthropist. [1] [2]The Rosenstiel Award, issued by Brandeis University and the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami, is named after him and his wife.
The company was acquired by Schenley Industries of New York in 1956, and under new ownership the company's efforts were focused more strongly on the whisky market, with a number of investments in that sector, including the purchasing of Laphroaig in 1962.
In the late 1950s, Schenley Industries, which had bought the Cascade brand from Shwab's descendants, rebuilt the Cascade Hollow distillery, and renamed the brand "George Dickel". [4] A bust and monument to Dickel now stands outside the general store and visitors' center at the new distillery.
The Reinfeld name is carried on today as a sub-division of New Jersey's largest wine & spirits distributor, Allied Beverage Group. Allied Beverage Group is the result of four mergers amongst NJ family-owned wholesalers, starting with the Baxter Group- the legacy company of Joseph Reinfeld and his brothers' original distribution company.
In 1958, Pabst Brewing Company, then the nation's tenth largest brewer, acquired Blatz, the eighteenth largest, from Schenley Industries. In 1959, the federal government brought an action charging that the acquisition violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act as amended by the Celler-Kefauver Anti-Merger amendment.
Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, a park serving as the entrance to Schenley Park; Schenley Quadrangle, Pittsburgh, a cluster of University of Pittsburgh residence halls; Schenley Industries, a former liquor company based in New York City; Schenley Award, original name of the Canadian Football League's Most Outstanding Player Award, named after the ...
It was sold in 1941 to Schenley Industries who closed the business in 1965. The name was then sold to the Guild Wine Company in 1965. The name was then sold to the Guild Wine Company in 1965. The land remained fallow until it was purchased by the Wente family in 1981, and revitalized as the "Sparkling Cellars."