新加坡的一家法院即将作出裁决，决定谁将控制卡斯特尔集团（Castel Group）——这家由家族经营的法国饮料企业如今已成为欧洲和非洲最大的饮料公司之一。目前，该公司正处于一场权力斗争之中：这场斗争的参与者包括两位创始人的亲属以及首席执行官（Gregory Clerc）——他是卡斯特尔家族之外首位执掌这家价值数十亿欧元企业的管理者。
A court in Singapore is preparing to decide who controls the Castel Group, a family-run French beverage business that has grown to be one of the largest drinks companies in Europe and Africa – and is currently the subject of a power struggle between two of the founder's relatives and the CEO, the first person outside the Castel family to run the multibillion-euro business.
这一裁决将标志着这场争议的重大进展。该争议始于去年年底，核心问题是：公司应由创始人的家族成员接管，还是由他指定的外部继任者接管。
The ruling will mark a major development in a dispute that became public late last year and centres on who will take over from the company's ageing founder – his family members or his chosen successor, an outsider.
这场纷争的双方是：创始人皮埃尔·卡斯特尔（Pierre Castel）的女儿罗米·卡斯特尔（Romy Castel）及其侄子阿兰·卡斯特尔（Alain Castel），他们与首席执行官格雷戈里·克莱尔克（Gregory Clerc）对立。克莱尔克是一名前税务律师，于2023年被任命为首席执行官，并得到了卡斯特尔家族其他成员的支持。
这两位亲属指控克莱尔克企图夺取对这家年销售额超过65亿欧元、在全球拥有约4万名员工的庞大酒类、啤酒和软饮料帝国的控制权。
The feud pits Romy Castel, the daughter of founder Pierre Castel, along with his nephew Alain Castel, against chief executive Gregory Clerc, a former tax lawyer appointed to the CEO role in 2023 who has the backing of the rest of the Castel family. The two cousins accuse Clerc of attempting to seize control of the vast wine, beer and soft drinks empire, which generates annual sales of more than €6.5 billion and employs some 40,000 people worldwide.
周五，卡斯特尔集团的核心控股及资产管理公司——投资饮料业务管理有限公司（Investment Beverage Business Management, IBBM）的所在地——新加坡高等法院将宣布谁将控制IBBM的运营权。法院的裁决要么会恢复克莱克的职务（他在裁决期间被暂时停职），要么会允许卡斯特尔家族永久解除他的职务。
On Friday, the High Court of Singapore – where Castel's core holding and asset management company Investment Beverage Business Management (IBBM) is based – will rule who controls IBBM. Its decision will either reinstate Clerc, who was provisionally suspended pending the ruling, or allow the Castels to remove him permanently.
公司背景：这家企业最初名为“Castel Frères”，成立于1949年的波尔多。它是由皮埃尔·卡斯特尔和他的八个兄弟姐妹共同创立的，这些兄弟姐妹的父母是从西班牙移民到法国并在葡萄园工作的工人。从最初的一家葡萄酒贸易公司起步，该公司后来逐渐扩展到了葡萄酒的生产、装瓶、分销和营销领域。如今，它拥有“Baron de Lestac”和“Roche Mazet”等品牌，以及“Nicolas”连锁葡萄酒商店。
French wine, African beer Founded as Castel Frères in Bordeaux in 1949, the business was born as a joint venture between Pierre Castel and his eight siblings, the children of Spanish immigrants who moved to France to work on vineyards. From a wine merchant business, it later expanded into making, bottling, distributing and marketing wine. Today it owns the Baron de Lestac and Roche Mazet brands, among others, as well as the Nicolas chain of wine shops.
与此同时，皮埃尔·卡斯特尔主导了公司在非洲的扩张。他从出口法国葡萄酒起步，于20世纪60年代在加蓬建立了公司的第一家酿酒厂，随后又在其他法语非洲国家收购或新建了更多工厂。
In parallel, Pierre Castel led an expansion into Africa. Beginning by exporting French wines, he established the company's first brewery in Gabon in the 1960s and then purchased or built more factories in other French-speaking African countries.
公司还收购了啤酒和软饮料行业的竞争对手，并在去年年初从帝亚吉欧手中收购了加纳健力士酿酒公司80%的股权。
The company also bought out competitors in the beer and soft drinks industries, most recently taking an 80 percent stake in Guinness Ghana Breweries from Diageo at the beginning of last year.
凭借33 Export、Flag和Castel Beer等畅销品牌，如今公司的非洲业务贡献了超过四分之三的销售额。该集团业务遍及非洲22个国家，是非洲第二大啤酒和软饮料生产商，同时还拥有糖业、面粉和蒸馏酒资产。
Now its African operations make up more than three-quarters of its sales, thanks to widely sold brands including 33 Export, Flag and Castel Beer. Present in 22 countries on the continent, the group is the second-largest producer of beer and soft drinks in Africa and also owns sugar, flour and distillery assets.
随着出口下滑、关税冲击加剧，法国葡萄酒商举杯庆祝新市场 继承权之争。如今，现年99岁、居住在葡萄牙的皮埃尔·卡斯特尔已不再经营公司。
French winemakers toast new markets as exports fall and tariffs bite Succession strife Now aged 99 and living in Portugal, Pierre Castel no longer runs the company.
近年来，虽然他的亲属很少参与公司的日常运营，但克莱尔协助他建立起了一个由跨国控股公司和信托组成的网络，从而降低了集团的税负。
While few of his relatives have been involved in its day to day operations in recent years, Clerc helped him expand a multinational network of holding companies and trusts that minimised the group's tax burden.
创始人于2023年退休时，决定将公司的核心管理权交给克莱尔和董事长皮埃尔·贝尔，而非家族成员。
When the founder retired in 2023, he opted to hand the company's core management to Clerc and chairman Pierre Baer rather than to members of his family.
家族仍持有集团的资本，这些资本由皮埃尔的独子女及其兄弟姐妹的后代平均持有。
The family continues to hold the group's capital, which is divided equally between Pierre's only child and the descendants of his siblings.
负责公司葡萄酒业务的阿兰·卡斯特尔和罗米·卡斯特尔自2025年末以来一直公开寻求将克莱尔赶下台。当时，阿兰要求克莱尔辞职但未获成功，反而被解除了在集团另一家控股公司的职务。
Romy Castel and Alain Castel, who heads the company's wine operations, have been seeking publicly to oust Clerc since late 2025, when Alain unsuccessfully demanded his resignation and was instead dismissed himself from another of the group's holding companies.
今年2月，这对表亲推动股东投票表决，将克莱尔和贝尔从IBBM中解职，声称他们希望保护皮埃尔·卡斯特尔对集团的愿景。
In February, the cousins orchestrated a shareholder vote to dismiss Clerc and Baer from IBBM, claiming they wanted to protect Pierre Castel's vision for the group.
与此同时，克莱尔坚持认为，他正在践行创始人将经营权与所有权分离的方针。
Clerc, meanwhile, maintains that he is pursuing the founder's policy of separating management from ownership.
非洲如何帮助法国亿万富翁文森特·博洛雷打造其影响力帝国。此后，控股集团管理层免去了罗米·卡斯特在各子公司董事会的职务，因为她公开批评了公司的某些商业决策。
How Africa helped forge French billionaire Vincent Bolloré's empire of influence Since then, the wider management has stripped Romy Castel of her seats on the boards of various subsidiaries after she publicly criticised certain business decisions.
今年8月，卡斯特家族其他四个主要控股分支也发表联合声明，与她划清界限，并支持克莱尔克的管理团队。
In August, the four other majority branches of the Castel family also released a joint statement distancing themselves from her and backing Clerc's management team.
然而，上周她取得了一场战略性胜利：新加坡法院允许她所在的派系提名三名新董事候选人，以填补董事会空缺。法院将于周五就是否维持解除克莱尔克职务的决定作出最终裁决。
However, last week she secured a strategic victory when the Singapore court allowed her faction to put forward three new proposed directors to fill empty board seats. The court will deliver its definitive ruling on Clerc's dismissal on Friday.
罗米·卡斯特还在法国、瑞士和卢森堡对克莱尔克提起刑事诉讼，指控他在担任她的私人税务律师和首席执行官期间犯有背信、挪用公司资产等罪行。
Romy Castel has also filed criminal complaints against Clerc in France, Switzerland and Luxembourg, accusing him of betrayal of interest and misappropriation of company assets and other offences during his time as her personal tax lawyer and as CEO.
克莱尔克则反过来起诉罗米·卡斯特，称她在授权委托书上伪造了父亲的签名，但她否认了这一指控。
Clerc in turn has lodged a case against Romy Castel for allegedly forging her father's signature on a power of attorney, which she denies.