What Did Steve Jobs Know About the Booze Business? A Lot!

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We spend a lot of time at BevStrat looking at what other CPG businesses can teach adult beverage. The booze business is famously known...

What I Learned at WSWA 2019

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The supplier, the wholesaler and the consultant world descended on Orlando, Florida last week for the annual WSWA convention. It was a collection of...

WSWA Convention Survival Guide

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Every year, over a four-day period, the adult beverage world descends on one special location for the WSWA convention. Makers come from all over...

Diving Head First into the Booze Business

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Spring is springing and summer is not far behind. Backyard events, concerts, and all sorts of warm weather activities. including swimming. Currently I am...

What I learned at VinExpo New York 2019

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We came to VinExpoNY. We saw VinExpoNY. We left VinExpoNY. As usual it was filled to the brim with suppliers that are incredibly eager...

How the Booze Business Is Just Like the Oscars

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Like most of Earth I watched the Oscars last night. Beside the plausible deniability of a Bradly Cooper and Gaga relationship, there was something...

Off Premise and On-Premise Battle Royale

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I have seen things. I have been on the front lines, and it was horrific. The fight was between budgets and brands. The fight...

2019 Is the Year of the Independent Brand

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Happy New Year to all. We at BevStrat are so happy to put 2018 in the books. We feel that 2018 was the year...

Top 5 Predictions for 2019

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We are here again. Like clockwork, December comes and everyone in the adult beverage world looks backwards at their successes and failures, otherwise known...

Game-On & Game-Over for the 2018 Selling Season

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We at BevStrat hope that everybody had a wonderful holiday weekend that was filled with the ideal amount of family and inventory depletions. We,...

Wine Spectator Top 10 Does Not Represent the American Drinker

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Like clockwork every November Wine Spectator publishes their Top 100 wine list. When I was a retailer this list made customers go crazy, they...

Bet on Yourself in the Booze Game

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Musing from 30,000 feet flying from LA to Chicago. There are a few end-of-year comments that need to be made. I am coming back...

30 Plus 30 Equals 30

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I consider myself smart, just ask me :). I have been selling booze for nearly 30 years in all tiers of the business. One...

The Holidays Are Distributor Merger Time

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For the last several years many things have been on repeat during the valued Holiday Sales Selling Season for adult beverage. I am late...

Is Your Brand Built for Expansion?

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In America we love growth. We love multiples. We love sequels. No one needed a Rocky VI. We did not need a Disneyland in...