Inside Ben E. Keith

April 26, 2011Inside Ben E. Keith How does the fourth largest beer wholesaler in the nation maintain its cred with craft suppliers? Start with food, I guess. Ben E. Keith has been in business for over 100 years, founded by the namesake and stewarded later by Gaston Hallam, whose family still runs the company. Food has been its "horse" since the beginning. The multi-state institutional foodservice division does double its beverage operations; the company got into beer after Prohibition, when