AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDY CHRISTON

Now that taxes are done (this is the first year, ever, that I didn't file an extension), we can relax and relay a recent chat I had with veteran industry consultant Andy Christon of Ippolito Christon & Company, whose work in beer and bottler M&A gives him a front row seat to distributor valuations and deal making. Here is an excerpt of the transcript of that conversation: ANDY ON BACKGROUND OF HIS FIRM. "My partner and I both spent a