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Dear Client: Anheuser-Busch owned AB One is buying 9-million case Anaheim-based A-B house Straub Distributing Co., BBD has just learned. It builds on A-B branch action from this past spring, when the company acquired roughly 4-million case Advance Beverage in Bakersfield, CA. Officially, Anheuser-Busch has reached an agreement to purchase Anheuser-Busch brand distribution rights from Straub in addition to distribution rights for certain craft/NA brands in Straub’s current portfolio, subject to supplier approval. (Besides the A-B portfolio, Straub notably has
NBWA To Wholesalers After The Blue Tsunami: We Know Folks on Both Sides
Dear Client: NBWA chief Craig Purser and EVP government affairs Laurie Knight reassured beer wholesalers that they are still well-positioned with many of the incoming Congress members after the blue midterm wave. On the ground at the Next Gen conference in San Diego this week, brass told members they know people on both sides of many of the races, and plan to work with the new Congress the way it worked with the last one. But Craig didn’t downplay the
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