Columbia and Scout Strike JV in Idaho

Dear Client: Columbia, one the country’s largest beer and beverage wholesalers, is teaming up with one of the best-known craft beverage distribs, Scout, for a JV in Idaho next month. It will operate as "Scout Idaho."   The companies say the partnership is "a creative approach that satisfies both Scout and Columbia’s mutual goals: To strategically grow into new markets, expand opportunity for supplier brands, and bring more choice to the consumer."  Last December, Craft Business Daily wrote that San Diego-based