The Great InBev Inventory Shortage: What’s Really Happening?

As reported on Friday, A-B and InBev are having significant supply shortages on several of their newly acquired InBev brands. While we've proved beyond a reasonable doubt that A-B isn't intentionally shorting non-A-B equity wholesalers in favor of A-B distributors, it doesn't discount the fact that this is frustrating. Indeed, A-B vp Dave Peacock told BBD last week that this has been "a constant source of frustration for us." We've bird-dogged this issue a bit over the last week and