What we do
Celtica is both a specialist advisory and transaction firm and a commercial trading, sourcing and route-to-market business. A mandate can use one service on its own or combine several, and most do.
On the advisory side, Celtica assesses, verifies, structures and reports on drinks assets for owners, lenders, receivers, insolvency practitioners and their advisers. The output is evidence, a stated basis of assessment and a defensible commercial route.
On the trading side, Celtica buys, sells, sources and places casks, bulk spirit, bottled and branded stock, private-label supply and packaging for distilleries, bottlers, distributors, retailers, hospitality groups and international trade buyers.
Scope, evidence requirements, timescale and fees are agreed at the outset and set out in writing before instruction. Fees are scaled to the mandate and typically combine a fixed element for defined work with a success-related element aligned to realisation.
Where a mandate is time-critical, because an appointment has been made or stock has to move, that is reflected in the sequence and stated in the engagement.
Service areas
Each links to a fuller description of scope, evidence requirements, deliverables and typical instructions.
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Independent commercial assessment of casks, bulk spirit, bottled stock and related drinks assets, on a stated evidence base with limitations disclosed.
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Storage, maturation, documentation, portfolio structure, timing and the commercial options open to an owner.
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Structured sale processes, whole or parcelled, run confidentially and reported for the file.
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Identification, verification, diligence and acquisition support against a defined buying requirement.
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Commercialisation planning for bulk spirit, private label, bottled stock, export readiness and international distribution.
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Coordination of bottling, packaging, dry goods, export documentation and delivery, from readiness assessment to landed cost.
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Review of ownership, warehouse records, spirit specification, contractual position and commercial risk.
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Mandate delivery
Celtica operates an asset-light specialist model. Each mandate is led commercially by Celtica and, where required, supported by appropriately appointed independent providers across bonded custody, laboratory analysis, legal and title work, bottling, packaging and logistics. This keeps commercial judgement, transaction management and client reporting within one mandate while technical functions remain with the relevant specialists.
Celtica establishes scope, evidence requirements, commercial strategy and transaction direction.
Independent technical providers are appointed where required for the particular asset, jurisdiction and route to market.
Celtica coordinates the mandate and provides the instructing party with a clear written record of scope, evidence, process and outcome.
Celtica provides commercial advice on drinks-industry assets. It is not a distillery, a bottler, a bonded warehouse operator, a freight company, a customs agency, a laboratory, a law firm, a regulated financial adviser or an investment promoter. Nothing published by Celtica is legal, tax, investment, excise, customs or regulated financial advice.
Enquiries
Tell us what you hold or what you need, and the enquiry will be directed to the relevant business function and handled in confidence.