Crown Wins Distributor Dispute

February 24, 2014Dear Client: You may recall that in California, Haralambos Beverage had a deal to sell its Crown Imports business to Classic Distributing in 2008, which was denied by Crown, and then again in 2010, which was again denied. Haralambos eventually sold the business to A-B's branch, Anheuser-Busch Sales of Pamona, and has no beef with Crown. But Classic sued Crown alleging that it secretly was angling for Haralambos to sell to another distributor as far back as the