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A Sit-Down with Guillaume Touton

The Bordeaux transplant has spent over 20 years building his family-run importing business in New York
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 10:00am ET

Guillaume Touton has lived the American dream. He just took a detour through Canada to get there. I sat down with Touton the other day to talk a bit about Bordeaux, which happens to be his old home town. Touton moved to Canada, then New York in his 20s, to start his own import company.

Today, Monsieur Touton Selection, Ltd. is a new York-based importer which now counts annual sales of $100 million, with around 15 to 20 percent of that coming from his native Bordeaux.

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