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
Stuart Rossiter Trust Stuart Rossiter Trust The Stuart Rossiter Trust is a British charitable trust (registered charity number 292076) that was created by the will of the philatelist and postal historian Stuart Rossiter and subsequently the will of his mother. The trust was established in 1985 and has become a prolific publisher of books about postal history and also publishes the "Rossiter Postal History Journal" annually. There are five trustees, including David Beech, Curator of the British Library Philatelic Collections who is the Chairman. The principal objectives of the Trust are: The Trustees have said that they "invite applications for funding from anyone,