The Future of Distributor Issues

September 17, 2013 Dear Client: We'll start with Joe Thompson's Big Hairy Distributor "Must Do" before we share his famous Southern lines from yesterday's Brooklyn Brewing Distributor meeting. With suppliers demanding more "value adds" from their distributors, amid declining consumption trends and other conundrums, beer's wholesaler tier is going to have to undergo a seismic operational shift to accommodate said value adds. In a word, "automation." Joe gave an example of a 50-hour work week with "an actual" 6 million