CFBD Meeting: Access “Not Best Served In a Billionaire’s Boardroom”

Dear Client:  While one of your BBD editors attended the California Beer and Beverage Distributors convention in Napa this week, the other attended the inaugural gathering of the California Family Beer Distributors in Palm Springs. CFBD exec director Kevin Luckey opened the half-day show, painting the need for such an organization. The CFBD was created in 2020 to protect family distributors in California, he said.   He offered some sobering stats about the state of second tier consolidation in California, as