Although he is focused on the small-winery unit, just renamed Jackson Family Farms, there, too, he is ceding more matters to management, which includes his wife, Barbara Banke.
Kendall-Jackson has had 18% annual unit-volume growth in the 1990s and a dollar market share in the highly fragmented chardonnay segment (60% of its sales) that dwarfs its nearest competitors.
From October 1998 until September 1999, Mr. Jackson served as Chief Executive Officer of Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC, a North American operating unit of DaimlerChrysler AG, a multinational automotive manufacturing company.