Distributors Speak

There have been two broadsides launched in the general direction of beer distributors over the past few days that we wish to address, lest they get out of hand.The first spawns from the prospect of InBev making a bid for A-B. As we know, while brewers have power over who distributors sell to, distributors have no power over who their brewers are sold to. As Carlos Laboy wrote yesterday, InBev has had a history of "re-engineering the profit pie away