Inside Colorado’s Distribution Land Grab

Dear Client: Ten years ago, Colorado’s beverage distribution business was already changing. Craft portfolios were consolidating. National wine and spirits houses were getting bigger. And state lawmakers had started dismantling the retail rules that sent consumers to the neighborhood liquor store for their full-strength beer. But even by those standards, 2026 has been something else. Reyes Beverage Group bought its way into Colorado through RNDC. Southern Glazer’s bought Eagle Rock’s Colorado business, which itself had been A-B’s branch operation just