WASHINGTON, March 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
AMERICAN WINES
Profile America — Friday, March 21st. Today marks the birthday in 1910 of one of the major figures of the American wine industry — Julio Gallo. When Prohibition ended, he and his brother Ernest started making wine in humble surroundings — a rented California warehouse, with equipment bought on credit. Over years of hard work saw their winery became the largest in the U.S., and their creative marketing techniques helped shape the nation's drinking tastes. Now, the Gallo establishment is joined by some 1,950 other wineries in America, which decant about $12 billion in yearly shipments. Overall, Americans consume an average of nearly 2¾ gallons of wine annually. You can find current data on the country's economy by downloading the 'America's Economy' mobile application at www.census.gov/mobile.
Sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/obituaries/julio-gallo-83-wine-industrialist-dies.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
http://www.gallosignatureseries.com/our-story/our-winemaking-heritage.html
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ECN_2007_US_31I1&prodType=table NAICS 312130 http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ECN_2007_US_31SX12&prodType=table http://www.wineinstitute.org/resources/statistics/article86
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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