Seattle Consolidating

The newly formed, or really nearly formed, CoHo Distributing has a deal to buy the western Washington State beer division and part of the non-alc business of Alaska Distributing, the Coors distributor in Seattle. That's the first announced Miller-Coors combination since the J-V closed, and that certainly didn't take long CoHo to get out of the gate. Coho, you'll recall is the "intended merged entity" of Columbia Distributing Co., Mt. Hood Beverage Co. and Gold River Distributing. That merger will