Branch Issue Gets Press Coverage in MO

May 7, 2012Branch Issue Gets Press Coverage in MODear Client:Brewers and wholesalers skirmishing over branches is starting to hit hte mainstream press. A report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shines a light on the bill wholesalers are trying to pass in Missouri to make brewery-owned branches illegal. "In the past two years, laws banning self-distribution have been passed in Louisiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Illinois... In Missouri, though, the idea has been a tougher sell. The big brewer's clout in Jefferson