Beer Business Daily Editor-in-Chief, Harry Schuhmacher, tweeted some interesting findings earlier today. The beer distribution business is a big one, indeed, and Schuhmacher sheds some light on the leadership at the top. If you take 135 million case-equivalents and divide that by 13.78, you come to approximately 10 million barrels of beer. That’s only about 5% of the U.S. market, no? Seems low (see comment).
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I think he was referring only to the 17 A/B owned distributors or “branches” that sell to a total of 10 million barrels of beer a year. That’s a lot of beer for 17 distributors.
Good call, Brian.