Wine-Searcher, the world’s largest pricing database for wine, spirits and other alcoholic beverages, today announced that it has been acquired by GLX U.S. Inc, a New York-headquartered company and wholly owned subsidiary of Platin Sàrl.
Platin Sàrl is the Goudet family’s investment company, with its billionaire patriarch Olivier Goudet – the former chief financial officer at Mars – being one of Treasury Wine Estates’ largest shareholders.
Wine-Searcher will remain headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, with offices in the UK, and will focus on accelerating growth in the US and other key international markets under its new ownership.
Wine-Searcher CEO Julian Perry said: “We are excited to be starting this new chapter with GLX and to continue supporting businesses across the wine industry.”
GLX Senior Partner Grégory Andre said: “We are delighted to welcome Wine-Searcher into our ecosystem. Wine-Searcher is the undisputed leader in the wine data industry, and we look forward to providing the capital and strategic focus necessary to scale the business further, with a particular emphasis on expansion in the critical US market and other key international markets.”
Under GLX’s ownership, Wine-Searcher said it will seek to further harness the power of AI while continuing to expand the drinks data industry. Wine-Searcher already attracts 60 million people, who run 250 million searches, leading to 30 million sales leads for retailers worldwide.
Now, as for Olivier Goudet … he and Platin Sàrl have scooped up another trove of TWE shares, taking his ownership stake to 9.04%.
Platin Sàrl increased its holding in TWE from 65.7 million shares to 73 million shares, with a price tag of around $30 million. That’s in addition to the more than $270 million Goudet splashed out on shares from October 2025 to March 2026.
In February, Goudet told The Australian: “We continue to buy shares in Treasury Wine. We don’t know at what level we will stop, but we strongly believe the company is fundamentally undervalued.”