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Dear Client: It’s been a jam-packed few days at the Beer, Wine & Spirits Summit. We’ll bring you the big-name presentations throughout the week, but first, the throughlines that showed up across sessions. “THE WORST IS OVER.” MOSTLY? Despite the doom and gloom of ’25, and the looming structural vs. cyclical debate, nobody at the conference believed bev alc (or bev alc-plus, if you will) is dead, not even the hemp THC guys. InvestBev’s chairman/managing general partner Brian Rosen put
Brendan Whitworth Returns to the Summit Stage (and other Highlights)
Dear Client: In his first presentation (outside of Anheuser-Busch meetings) in years, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth swooped in for 30 minutes to talk to our Beer, Wine & Spirits Summit in San Diego ahead of SAMCOM in Los Angeles. Here’s a handful of the most compelling things we heard. ON THE CONSENT DECREE: We’ll start toward the end of the conversation. Harry asked what could happen when the DOJ’s decade-old Consent Decree from the ABI-SABMiller deal expires in July [remember?
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