Post Labor Day Survey: Best of Times, Worst of Times

Dear Client: Our post-Labor Day wholesaler survey results invoke Dickens’ most famous novel. For beer distributors, it is the best of times, and the worst of times, often depending on whose brand name hangs on the wall. Our survey, conducted over the last couple of weeks, fielded responses from more than 30 wholesalers across the country, of all sizes and affiliations.  Some are doing better than usual, and some, worse.  HALF OF DISTRIBUTORS ARE UP IN DOLLARS AND VOLUME; 22%