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Fuel Costs: Distributors Fight Back

In a surprising turnaround from last year, beer distributors who responded to our Fuel Truth Squad Survey--and there were over 100 respondents, fairly well distributed across geography, size, and brands represented--overwhelmingly rate rising fuel costs as "very important" to overall profitability.Over 72% of respondents rated fuel costs as "very important", compared to only 31% one year ago, when we last ran an identically worded survey of a similar sample of distributors. Clearly, fuel costs have hit the tipping point of

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