TABC to MillerCoors and AB InBev: Don’t Mess with Texas

At least one state's Alcohol Beverage Commission is trying to stay ahead of the curve on brewer change in control. The Texas ABC's legal counsel Lou Bright sent a letter to industry members, obtained by BBD, reminding everybody that, despite the "several proposed mergers and acquisitions at the manufacturing tier of the beer industry," Texas law "requires a beer manufacturer to assign an exclusive territory to a distributor for every brand it sells in the Texas marketplace" and "limits the