Specialty Beer Distributors meeting a first

Distributor consolidation has been rampant in the beer business for over three decades. The number of wholesalers has declined from more than 5,000 nationwide in 1970 to fewer than 2,500 today. Unquestionably, bigger distributors are less craft friendly than smaller distributors. A-B continues to push their distributors to carry only A-B products, migrating more and more to an exclusive network,...