COMPANY FACT SHEET

• E. & J. Gallo Winery is a family-owned winery with fifteen family members, spanning three generations of the Gallo family, actively working in the business.

• Established in 1933 and headquartered in Modesto, California, E. & J. Gallo Winery remains a privately held and ever-growing company that employs more than 7,000 people worldwide.

• E. & J. Gallo Winery offers a broad array of products that total more than 130 brands and include table, sparkling and luxury wines, beverage products, dessert wines and distilled spirits.

• With products available in more than 100 countries, E. & J. Gallo Winery is an exporter of California wine, and imports wines from Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa and Spain. Additionally, Gallo imports spirits from Australia, the Caribbean, Italy, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Venezuela.

• E. & J. Gallo Winery is one of the most highly acclaimed wine and spirits companies in the world, having earned major awards from prestigious competitions in the U.S. and internationally.

• For the past five years (2017-2021) Glassdoor has selected E. & J. Gallo Winery as one of the top 100 Best Places to Work. Best Places to Work is an annual award from Glassdoor that weighs the scores of over 600,000 companies for their culture, values, career opportunities, CEO approval and overall employment rating.

• For the last eight years, Gallo has earned a 100% score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Corporate Equality Index, recognized as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.

• E. & J. Gallo Winery owns nineteen wineries strategically located in wine regions throughout California, Washington, and New York and over 23,000 acres of vineyards across the state of California and Washington. In addition, the company contracts with growers who assist with yearly supply.

• E. & J. Gallo Winery’s commitment to the protecting the land and enhancing wildlife habitat through sustainable agricultural practices originated with the Winery’s co-founders, Ernest and Julio, in the late 1930s. All of the Winery’s coastal vineyards participate in a unique land management plan started by the co-founders where for every acre of land planted in vineyard, one acre of property is set aside to help protect and enhance wildlife habitat.

• E. & J. Gallo Winery was recognized as the first winery in the U.S. to receive the International Standards Organization’s ISO 14001 certification, created to assist companies with reducing impacts on the environment.

• E. & J. Gallo Winery has led the way in developing and refining new environmentally friendly practices such as minimizing the use of synthetic chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides, recycling and reusing processed water, creating new wetlands and protecting existing riparian habitats.

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