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World’s Smartest Billionaire Enters Beer Distribution Business

Dear Client:Occasionally at dinner parties wealthy individuals will approach me -- knowing that I am somehow connected to the beer industry -- and ask, "How do I go about buying a beer distributorship?" For the past ten years or so my stock answer has been, "Nobody outside the industry gets into beer wholesaling anymore. Major suppliers will only approve consolidation with existing distributors." Of course, none of these people have been the world's smartest billionaire, so... If Columbia Distributing's major

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