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...Moreover, distributors, and not brewers like MillerCoors, set beer prices in the U.S....
...Association which promotes independent craft brewers, said the MillerCoors sale was not enough and his biggest concern was that the combined AB InBev-SABMiller would use its market power to influence independent distributors...
...Britvic is set to expand in the US where it recently signed several distribution deals and announced a local manufacturing agreement with Pepsi Bottling Ventures, a distributor for its Fruit Shoot brand,...
...It also announced that Pepsi Bottling Ventures, Fruit Shoot’s distributor in the Carolinas, would start making the drink from concentrate sent over from Dublin in 2012....
...Martin-Brower is controlled by Reyes Holdings, an international distributor of beverages and food that claims to be the 20th-largest privately held company in the US....
...Although Coke is a distributor of Hansen’s Monster energy drink, Mr Kent has downplayed the future of the category. “As a long-term perspective, there will be a tapering off of demand,” he said....
...Budweiser’s push to tap Vietnam’s thirst for premium beer has been disrupted by a messy legal dispute involving Anheuser-Busch InBev’s former local distributor, a high-profile American businessman and a...
...Diageo, the owner of Johnnie Walker whisky and Captain Morgan rum, blamed a larger-than-expected 6 per cent drop in first-quarter net sales on distributor destocking in the US....
...Meanwhile, the system of separate distributors means brewers are relatively indifferent to whether consumers are drinking in bars or at home – unlike European peers hit by harsh retail competition....
...“Total Beverage Alcohol” alliance seems unlikely with BUD — Although Diageo remains an advocate of a “total beverage alcohol” alliance, we do not view Anheuser-Busch as the likely partner, given that (1)...
...Realising the need for distribution, the company looked at the largest beverage distributors and saw that Anheuser-Busch had the biggest coverage nationally....
...Jim Doney, president of Chicago Beverage Systems, one of the largest Miller distributors, says: “He listens but he is still very forceful in making sure he gets his message across.”...
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