Give and Take

As Miller-only and Coors-only distributors await who will the the consolidators and consolidatees, and other smaller brands simultaneously decide whether to stick around or jump ship, distributors will increasingly find themselves in the middle.And it's not just the small distributors. Example: Reyes' recent purchase of Mesa Distributing, the Miller distributor in San Diego, was likely predicated on the belief that it would be able to combine it with the Coors distributor there, Crest Beverage.Problem is, the Sourapas family, which owns