wine world estates by armand gilinsky jr ph d and raymond h lopez is professor of business administration at sonoma state university finance the lubin school pace introduction i have heard reports that could be up for sale in not too distant future what might happen to our employees management team under a new owner maybe we put together buyout group before finalized but where does one come with more than 300 million relatively short period time walter t klenz president division nestle sa walt operations shared these thoughts his s top managers summer 1995 he had been producing excellent operating results parent company found it hard believe they sell this growing profitable over last three fiscal years sales grew 14 percent annually net income doubled established itself as largest sellers premium products