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Dear Client: NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The reduced room block rate for the Summit at the historic Hotel del Coronado ends on Monday. So please, make sure to reserve your room today, (because I always get emails and texts, and even calls, from dozens of you over the holidays to use my influence to make exceptions with the hotel, and trust me, those days are over — not only won’t the hotel budge anymore, but frankly I’m not here to
Ippolito to Indie Beer Distribs on Possible Pepsi Refranchise: Form Alliances, or Forget it
Dear Client: With Pepsi under pressure from activist investor Elliott Management to rethink its bottling model, longtime beer-distribution advisor Ippolito Christon & Co. is telling local independent beer wholesalers one thing: if refranchising comes, only alliances will have a shot. Beverage suppliers, they note, increasingly prefer partners able to offer “one-stop” statewide or regional coverage that reduces “operational complexity, onboarding costs, and logistical headaches.” And if Pepsi moves in that direction, it will be looking for exactly those kinds of
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