Weighing Public Supplier Sentiment on Recent Trends

Dear Client: Most major suppliers reported earnings the last couple months, so your editors combed through our recent reporting to pull out some common themes.  A HANDFUL OF BRANDS DRIVING GROWTH. On the spirits side, suppliers most-recently reported growth in the US fell in the range of -3% to +2%. Each company has a handful of brands that are really driving growth across a few key categories like tequila, RTDs and whiskey.  For instance, Suntory highlighted the performance of -196