April 27th – Aligning direction of American Northwest Wine Portfolio development advancing its Fine Wine selections with our Pacific Northwest framework, ANW taps the leadership and category management experience of Erez Klein to oversee its Wine Portfolio Selections.
“Erez is the ideal choice for this role”, claims Anton F. Wright, CEO of American Northwest. “He is deeply rooted in fine wine and on premise, while having intimate understanding of chain business from many facets, like selection, trends, performance and strategy. Wholefoods has been tremendously successful in the 2000s in building a robust, profitable and innovative wine program. Mr.Klein was integral in that process and will provide focus, direction, and parallel values to ANW.”
ANW is the largest Family-Owned Wine and Spirits distributor in the Northwest. As the pandemic driven market shifts to recovery, ANW has its sights set on adding American Fine Wine producers, emerging Wine categories and building a deeper network of classic and soon-to-be classic Imported producers.
We asked Erez Klein to answer a few questions:
- Why are you excited to work with ANW?
“Buying wine in the most exciting wine producing and consuming regions in the country is always interesting and everchanging. Layer in ANW’s history of innovation and growth; combined there are nearly limitless possibilities, that seems exciting to me.”
- What you are looking forward to the most in your role?
“Having worked with wine in the Northwest for 17 years I have a lot of affection for local products and producers. Creating new local connections and carrying many old ones forward is something I would like to devote more effort.”
- How will you manage supplier relationships?
“With honesty and integrity and expecting the same in return. “
ANW is actively reviewing producers in the Northwest, California, National Importers and Quality driven producers from Europe that demand results driven brand management, qualitative distribution and transparency in communication. ANW’s recently launched Sales and Vendor platforms add new layers of efficiency in planning and executing brand market strategy. The goal is to make distribution accessible and transparent for producers and suppliers of all sizes.
To email Erez Klein directly, please use eklein@anwdistributors.com
To learn more about American Northwest, email info@anwdistributors.com or visit anwdistributors.com
