Teamsters, Craft Distributor Oppose KY Bill to Ban Branches

Dear Client:Earlier this month we shared details about Kentucky's House Bill 168, brought by Speaker Greg Stumbo, to "close what some say is a loophole in Kentucky law that allows larger brewers to act as distributors." This is obviously a move to pre-empt A-B from operating distributors, as it has for decades in Louisville and just recently in Owensboro. But now the bill is finding opposition from Teamsters, many of whom also work for the existing A-B Kentucky distributorship, as