Readers Respond to the Week’s News

Dear Client:  There's been a lot of seismic news this week for the middle tier. We started the week examining the long history of the A-B wholesaler agreement, in light of the brewer's recent alleged-by-some (and refuted by others) strong-arm tactics, from crewing to leveraging agreement violations (old beer) to potentially oust certain distribs.   Then, Wednesday saw the historic news that Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits would buy A-B’s New York wholly owned operation, a watershed development tying the largest