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Draft Beer is our Mitigator. Dear Client: The single biggest line item in making a beer just got more expensive again — and this time it’s a two-front war. THE TARIFF FLOOR WAS ALREADY A RECORD. The war didn’t start this. The Midwest Premium, (that infamous surcharge over commodity pricing that everyone buying metal here pays), had already hit an all-time high of $2,182 per tonne in late January, topping $1 a pound for the first time ever. The administration
Reyes’ Tom Day on Their Remarkable Transformation
Dear Client: Reyes Beverage Group CEO Tom Day took the stage at the Beer Insights Spring Conference in Chicago yesterday just days after Reyes closed the largest acquisition in its 50-year history — and he did not look like a man who’d absorbed 11 markets, 600-plus suppliers and more than 5,000 new employees over a single weekend. He looked spry, actually. That weekend was the culmination of RBG’s purchase of much of Republic National Distributing Company, the deal that dropped
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