Mr Ferrand was chief administrative officer of the UK division of Aegon's asset management business.
Mr Ferrand had been with Aegon for almost 10 years in the UK Asset Management business.
One problem: Ferrand was minuscule, turning out several thousand bottles a year compared with Hennessy's 51 million.
Christophe Ferrand, 44, was pulled from the house at Airth in Stirlingshire by firefighters but later died.
Ferrand is a research analyst and editor of "The Americas Report" of the Menges Hemispheric Security Project.
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They include current Test stars James Hook and Lee Byrne who are joining Perpignan and Clermont Ferrand respectively.
William Ferrand, the uncle of Sgt Telford, said his nephew had "absolutely loved" his job training Afghan forces.
Mr Ferrand was European chief operating officer for international asset management firm Aegon.
Andreu and Gabriel registered the Pierre Ferrand brand and flew across the Atlantic with the first bottle in their luggage.
He died at the scene along with Harry Ferrand, 17, from Enfield, and Ashley Jones, 19, from Canvey Island, Essex.
Christophe Ferrand, 44, a senior manager at Aegon Asset Management, was rescued from the blaze, but died later on in hospital.
Their strategy was simple: Find the most influential retailers, restaurants and distributors in every city and convince them to carry Ferrand.
The team from the Human Nutrition Research Centre of Auvergne, in Clermont-Ferrand, France looked at the behaviour of proteins in muscle.
Ferrand, and "The Americas Report April 11, 2007 titled: The Radical Grassroots Part II" by Luis Fleischman and Nicole M.
She described how they found Mrs Ferrand and the two children outside.
The concept was the creation of Alexandre Gabriel, who for 20 years has been the head of esteemed French Cognac house Ferrand Estate.
The deputy mayor of Clermont-Ferrand, where the pair studied, Bernard Dantal, said hearing the news had been "like being hit over the head".
The race has previously started in the French locations of Paris, Arras, Marseille and Clermont-Ferrand and the Spanish cities of Barcelona and Granada.
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To keep growing, Ferrand revamped a blend they developed for the Asian market, Landy, and approached distributors with the same pitch: higher profits, and we won't take it away.
There's still room to expand the Pierre Ferrand brand, but its capacity to make Grande Champagne cognac tops out at double current sales of around 16, 000 cases a year.
Andreu, 41, a former French special forces soldier, had never even tasted cognac until he and Gabriel met with Pierre Ferrand, the proprietor of the distillery, at 7:30 one Saturday morning.
In research performed at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France, subjects were asked to interpret real vs. fake smiles, while holding a pencil in their mouths to repress the muscles that help us smile.
Playing on a lightning fast indoor court at Clermont-Ferrand, Monfils got France's bid to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 2004 off to a morale-boosting start in a see-saw encounter with clay-court specialist Ferrer.
Sales grew steadily but unspectacularly until five years ago or so, when Ferrand hired some young business school grads to peddle cognac across the country, using charity events, in-home tastings and high-profile sponsorships like the Houston Polo Club to target affluent consumers.
But then he does something unique in the world: While the rums start in the traditional fashion, produced in local distilleries and barrel-aged in the tropical sun, they are plucked from their country of origin at just the right moment and brought to the Ferrand estate in France, where they are refined for several more months in small French oak Ferrand cognac barrels.
Ferrand, whom they bought out, was located in Grande Champagne, the most prestigious of the six cognac districts. (Champagne refers to chalky soil, also found where the sparkling wine of the same name is made.) That lucky happenstance gave Andreu and Gabriel the idea of creating a single-district cognac, similar to the single-malt Scotch brands like Macallan and Laphroaig that revitalized the Scotch business in the 1980s.
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