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Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, putting many suppliers who have gone months without payment in the back of the line to collect.
The first major piece of RNDC’s territory fire sale is now complete. Reyes’ mega deal for 11 RNDC markets closed at the end of business on Friday, adding 38 million cases to its more than 360-million-case business.
As Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) sells off nearly all of its territories, what does that mean for the state of distribution?
In this era of cross-beverage convergence, anything is possible, even a beer-flavored energy drink. Nutrabolt SVP of marketing Emily Hoyle joined the Brewbound Podcast to discuss, All Hopped Up, the limited-edition offering from energy brand C4.
Check out distribution news initially reported in the Brewbound Insider Newsletter October 19-21, including headlines from Crazy Mountain, Crowns & Hops, Ska Brewing and more.
The settlement between Southern Glazer’s and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) puts oversight on the nation’s largest wine and spirits distributor – but may not actually prohibit the distributor from engaging in the very sort of discriminatory pricing that triggered the lawsuit.
Shifting portfolio mixes and the safeguard of supplementing with offerings beyond beer was a hot topic during a panel discussion featuring five distributor leaders at last week’s NBWA Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida.
Arguments in Colorado’s distributor termination dispute between Coors Distributing Company (CDC) and Constellation Brands began playing out earlier this week in the district court for the city and county of Denver.
In the wake of Martignetti’s acquisition of Girardi in Western Massachusetts, Atlas Distributing has added the Constellation Brands portfolio in Berkshire and Franklin counties, the Auburn, Massachusetts-based, independent blue-and-gold network distributor shared.
Off-premise retailers still account for most of adult non-alcoholic (ANA) offerings’ sales, but the on-premise and e-commerce channels are now growing about twice as fast, according to a recent NIQ report.
The beer category should hope for an early start to the holidays to juice sales, Circana EVP of BevAl Scott Scanlon wrote in the data firm’s weekly scans report.
A handful of wine and spirits distributors plan to acquire Republic National Distributing Company’s (RNDC) remaining operations in Michigan.
“Total beverage strategy adoption,” “blurred category lines,” “a beverage-alcohol free-for-all” – there are numerous ways the current state of the bev-alc industry has been described. National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) president and CEO Craig Purser has added his own to the mix: “Freaky Friday.”
As its annual sales surpass $100 million, premium bottled water maker Icelandic Glacial is ready to move on from its two-decade long master distribution agreement with Anheuser-Busch InBev, declining to renew a contract that is scheduled to expire next summer.
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Sierra Nevada has joined a growing list of suppliers exiting Molson Coors-owned Coors Distributing Company’s (CDC) portfolio in Colorado.
Federal agencies could use the Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits bribery probe as a “template” for future investigations into middle-tier pay-to-play schemes, McDermott Will & Schulte partner Julian André shared during the law firm’s webinar last week.
