In 2004, Paramount Distillers celebrated 70 years as a proud part of Cleveland's business community. Paramount's history dates back to 1934, when J. F. Moessmer founded the company on W. 106th St. a month after the repeal of Prohibition. Under Moessmer, Paramount was a modest operation, marketing primarily cordials and vodka in Ohio and Iowa. The company prospered and moved to its present site on Berea Road in 1946.

  In 1957, Robert Gottesman and Associates purchased the company and instituted an expansion program designed to increase the number of products. With his fresh new approach to marketing, sales grew dramatically.

  Since Paramount's modest beginnings on West 106th, the company has grown to a 120,000 square foot headquarters and the product line has diversified into approximately 150 different items in more than 500 sizes which are sold throughout the world. Paramount is the only Ohio corporation with a distilled spirits plant. Aside from the production area, the facility also houses laboratories, labeling and bottling assembly lines, a print shop and warehouse operations.

  Paramount's entry into the wine and champagne business came in 1976 when the company purchased Meier's Wine Cellars in Cincinnati, Ohio's oldest and largest winery.