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Dear Client: Ten years ago, Colorado’s beverage distribution business was already changing. Craft portfolios were consolidating. National wine and spirits houses were getting bigger. And state lawmakers had started dismantling the retail rules that sent consumers to the neighborhood liquor store for their full-strength beer. But even by those standards, 2026 has been something else. Reyes Beverage Group bought its way into Colorado through RNDC. Southern Glazer’s bought Eagle Rock’s Colorado business, which itself had been A-B’s branch operation just
Southern Glazer’s Reaches $12.5M Resolution with DOJ/TTB Over Improper Payments
Dear Client: Remember that big bribery case involving former high-level Southern Glazer’s employees that surfaced last year? Well, we’ve now learned how the broader federal investigation shakes out for Southern itself: a non-prosecution agreement and a $12.5 million payment. Southern announced yesterday evening that it has reached a “resolution” with the Department of Justice and the TTB related to the previously disclosed investigation, which the company says involved former employees and “focused primarily on activities which occurred many years ago.”
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