EPC Champagne acquires Charles Mignon in a strategic growth move

ust six years after it was founded in 2019, the young Champagne company EDC has already made its first purchase, marking an important milestone on its journey. It has bought Champagne house Charles Mignon, founded in 1995 by Laurence and Bruno Mignon, a family-run company based in Epernay. With around 15 employees, the firm produced one million bottles of Champagne in 2024, 70% of them sold in export markets.

For EPC the purchase represents a significant leap forward in terms of production capacity and portfolio breadth, allowing it to break through the one-million-bottle-barrier with ease, a target it had hoped to reach by 2027. The company also gains access to “high-performance production facilities including temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, small-capacity vats ideal for single-vineyard fermentations and a cutting-edge disgorgement site in Epernay”, stresses EPC. The acquisition also strengthens EPC’s presence in export markets, capitalising on Charles Mignon’s international network. However, EPC Champagne points out that it had already made inroads in over 50 countries over its six-year history. “The last phase of work on Charles Mignon’s production facilities was completed two years ago and is operated by a highly experienced team”, explains Edouard Roy, the co-founder of EPC Champagne.

There is one important aspect to the sale, however: “The Charles Mignon and EPC brands have their own, very distinctive identities, positioning and customer bases, which is why the Charles Mignon brand will continue through the founders’ children, Guillaume and Manon, and will be run independently from EPC”, adds the press statement.