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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,...
...The gain was largely thanks to the acquisition of Fruité, a French soft drinks company....
...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....
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...AB InBev said Budweiser continued to be distributed in Vietnam and that its current distributor was Redwood Holdings US, a Delaware limited liability company incorporated in April 2010....
...alcohol company, which we don’t think is off the table,” analysts at Credit Suisse said last week....
...Danone alleged that the non-JVs competed against its own JV companies, received preferential treatment from distributor Hangzhou Wahaha Health and were managed by Mr Zong through a deliberately opaque web...
...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)...
...The group, which is one of the world’s 10 biggest alcoholic beverage companies, is valued at between $5bn and $7bn....
...Realising the need for distribution, the company looked at the largest beverage distributors and saw that Anheuser-Busch had the biggest coverage nationally....
...The industry is seeking to bar the IPO suits, arguing that the SEC specifically authorised companies to work together in syndicates to share the risk of offerings....
...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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