Drama in North Carolina: ‘Match and Snatch’ May be Banned

Dear Client:There are some fascinating machinations going on in North Carolina. If their Governor signs off on House Bill 500 this month, a supplier that makes up more than 5% of a selling wholesaler's business will no longer hold the ability to match and snatch (or match and redirect, as breweries call it. Match and snatch, as you'll recall, occurs when a distributorship has a deal to sell to another distributorship, at which point the main suppliers have a contractual