Cinzano of the vermouth market in Europe was measured in the low single digits, sales that placed it a distant second to Martini. As a result of a 1997 merger, Grand Metropolitan became Diageo; two years later, Diageo sold Cinzano to the privately held Gruppo Campari. The Cinzano bicycling team had a central role in the film "Breaking Away". Cinzano was well known in Britain for its humorous television advertisements featuring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins. One of these featured the pair on a plane journey, with Rossiter accidentally hitting the "recline" switch on Collins chair, causing her to spill a
Collins Crossing the spring of 2011 with the hope of empowering children and building community through soccer. Hall of Fame American football player Lawrence Taylor lived at Collins Crossing (then known as Old Well) while he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1970s. Collins Crossing Collins Crossing, formerly known as Abbey Court and previously Old Well, is a complex of over 300 apartments in the town of Carrboro, North Carolina. Collins Crossing was formerly advertised as a complex of “condominiums,” however only a few units are still privately owned. Collins Crossing was purchased in 2013 by