French wine producer Lagarosse Holdings files for US IPO

Lagarosse Holdings, the Cayman Islands-registered shaper of French wine, is filing for an IPO successful the US.

Documents lodged with the SEC indicated Lagarosse Holdings, which is centred connected Bordeaux, plans to usage the proceeds connected areas including vineyard investment, enlargement into caller markets and M&A.

The company's Château Lagarosse property is located successful Tabanac successful the Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux appellation. The business, which bought the 45-hectare property successful 2011, markets vino nether labels including Château Lagarosse Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux and Château Lagarosse Les Comtes.

Lagarosse Holdings remains a fledgling outfit. In the 12 months to the extremity of March 2025, the institution generated gross of €2.5m ($2.9m), though that was up from €1.1m a twelvemonth earlier. Volumes roseate from 33,238 bottles to 124,518.

According to the IPO filing, the concern booked a nett income of €940,099 versus €312,011 a twelvemonth earlier.

In the six months to the extremity of September 2025, the company's gross was €1.2m. Its nett income was €610,114.

The company's superior gross watercourse is the merchantability of vino to customers extracurricular the EU.

The IPO filing makes nary denotation of overmuch Lagarosse Holdings plans to rise from the listing.

However, according to the documents, it plans to walk 40% connected the Château Lagarosse estate, including renovating buildings, processing vineyards and "upgrading" winery facilities.

Lagarosse Holdings points to its beingness successful Bordeaux AOP vino arsenic a "competitive strength" of the business.

"Demand for higher-quality wines has been supported by rising affluence successful definite markets and accrued user involvement successful higher-end vino categories," the IPO papers reads. "Wines from established regions specified arsenic Bordeaux proceed to beryllium associated with prime and heritage, which contributes to sustained involvement successful premium products."

It adds: "France maintains its prestigious presumption successful planetary markets, peculiarly for premium reddish wines from regions specified arsenic Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Rhône Valley. Emerging markets successful Asia, particularly China, person developed a beardown appetite for high-quality French reds, offsetting imaginable uncertainties successful accepted European and North American markets."

Lagarosse Holdings' CEO is Benoît Jacques Paul de Guigné, who, the filing says, is the politician of Tabanac but "has astir 30 years of acquisition successful the vino manufacture successful France".

The company's chairman, president – and largest azygous shareholder – is Chung Keung Steve Loo. He has been president of the group's operating subsidiary, SAS Chateau Lagarosse, since 2011. Loo's vocation has centred connected enforcement roles successful accounting, finance, concern and media.