Coors in Fight With Texas Distributor

While Coors Brewing Company's fight with Thies and Reyes grabbed the headlines in Florida, Coors was also quietly in an arbitration fight with one of its longtime distributors in Texas. Coors-only distributor M&A Distributing, based in the east Texas hamlet of Palestine, is embroiled in a legal fight with Coors over the brewer's failure to approve a purchase offer by big A-B distributor Ben E Keith and A-B distrib Stevenson Distributing, both competitors. That would give the resulting distributors an