June 4, 2018
Summer is here. Officially not yet, but the weather says different. Memorial Day has come and gone and all over America the summer booze season is upon us. Typing as I am flying to our NYC office a few...
May 25, 2018
It’s Friday morning, early, early Friday AM, I am sitting here in my office working away. Coaching our sales and strategy teams to finish the week strong. I know that many people are off from work, or...
May 8, 2018
A lot! A ton! A boatload! Let me add some perspective.
First – I learned how much sleep a human needs
Second- I learned that a $12.00 coffee tastes the same as a $2.50 coffee
Third- I learned...
April 17, 2018
Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America is what you see is what you get
Two weeks and counting! 14 days and the annual pilgrimage to Distributor Heaven will be upon us. We will descend on Vegas partially...
April 9, 2018
Our team is in Los Angeles this week to launch an Australian beer brand called 4 Pines. This is the 2nd largest brewer in Australia and was recently purchased by Anheuser Busch. Our whole team has worked...
March 28, 2018
There is a biblical event coming. There is a pilgrimage en route that happens once a year that can change your life forever. Yes, of course, it is Easter this Sunday and Good Friday a few days prior, but...
March 6, 2018
My love of New York is well documented. We office there, we employee there, we sell there, and we scoff at the pizza there. The notion that New Yorkers think the pizza is in the same ballpark as Chicago...
February 27, 2018
Such an ominous beginning to my article. I know, Rosen, you are negative, or Rosen, you are pessimistic. The truth is, I am neither. What I am, however, is realistic, and I have enough grey hair and enough...
February 7, 2018
The Advantage Goes to the Brands
I have been at this game for a long time. I have gone from retail big box CEO, to Managing Director at PwC in Wine, to Trade Marketing at Anheuser Busch, and some minor...
February 5, 2018
Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday. Super Bowl Sunday is a day that, according to many TV news magazines, there will be more wings, pizza and nachos consumed than any other day in America. Additionally, the...