Archive for the ‘Wine Business’ Category
Yesterday, the Wine & Spirit Wholesalers of America (WSWA) explained that while they DID oppose it with millions of dollars and while they ARE financing a lawsuit to stop the law from taking effect, they are in fact NEUTRAL on privatizing alcohol distribution and sales in Washington State…and elsewhere. The occasion for this oddly dichotomous position that is probably lost on no one, was an annual WSWA press conference held in Washington, DC yesterday that was purported to address "The…
Is the wine industry as open to women advancing up the ranks as it is to men? This was the question that eventually occurred to myself and my beautiful wife, Kathy, a bit over a week ago when I was bugging her with tales of The Masters golf championship, its history and the news surrounding it. She's terribly sweet to indulge me when I talk to her about Golf. Yet the story that got both our attentions during the Masters…
I note with some interest that among the American alcohol wholesaling community there is a great deal of talk about the need to unite the the various sectors of the alcohol beverage industry to advance a common political agenda. There was a great deal of call for common agendas at last week's Wine & Spirit Wholesalers Association of Ameirca Annual Convention. The new Chairman of WSWA, Charmer Sunbelt CEO Charlie Merinoff, put it like this in addressing last week's convention…
The Wine & Spirit Wholesalers of America, the national association representing American wine wholesalers, finished their annual convention in Las Vegas on Friday with their CEO Craig Wolf warning members that the challenge of "privatization" “is being used as a "stalking horse" for deregulation of the industry. His prescription for facing this "challenge"? "These challenges accentuate the need for the industry to work together. All three tiers must collaborate to protect the reliability, safety and integrity of the products they…
"Pennsylvania residents could have a little more liquor freedom, but only if they prefer American wine over the French, German or Australian varieties….'The people of Pennsylvania are really getting less than what they should be getting,” Farnese said, adding that 90 percent of the world’s wine would not be shipped under the proposal.' " To put this another way, The Pennsylvania Senate passed out a direct shipping bill that would bar Pennsylvanians from having wine shipped to them from any…
