Top Distribs Having a Good Year, Thanks to Seltzer, Mexican Imports and Guinness

Dear Client:  At the BMI seminar in New York, two former Big Beer execs -- Ed McBrien, COO, Manhattan Beer Distributors (formerly president of sales and distributor operations at MillerCoors) and Evan Athanas, CEO Chesapeake Beverage (formerly of A-B), talked about life on the "other" side of the business.  Many distributors would probably be heartened to hear Evan's honest answer about what it was like to go from being a brewery exec to one at a distributorship.  "When I was