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Alcoholic Beverage Distributors and Wholesalers Key Terms

Understanding terms every alcoholic beverage distributor should know

If you're thinking of jumping into the alcohol distributor business selling wine, beer or liquor, make sure you understand the terminology used in the industry. When you're dealing with customers, they'll expect you to be on top of your game, and understanding key terminology brings you one step closer.This guide starts first with the basic definition for an alcoholic...

Alcoholic Beverage Distributors and Wholesalers News and Trends

Keep current on the latest alcoholic beverage distributors and wholesalers news and trends

There are thousands of alcoholic beverage distributors and wholesalers across the country. Each wholesaler and distributor supplies certain brands and types of wine, beer and spirits. When working with these alcohol wholesalers, it’s important for you to stay up to date on the industry’s news and trends.Looking for up to date news and facts related to the wholesale...

Alcoholic Beverage Distributors and Wholesalers

Use alcoholic wholesalers or liquor distributors to get your beverage into large retailers

The government licenses alcohol distributors and allows them to sell alcohol to retailers. Retailers must posses an alcohol license to buy alcoholic beverages. The three-tier system that regulates alcohol wholesalers and liquor distributors actually helps smaller companies to get into the market while allowing the government to regulate the sale and collections of taxes on...

Alcoholic Beverages Education and Training

Enrich your employees with alcoholic beverages education and training

Some professions require alcoholic beverages education and training. Additionally, there are just as many jobs that, although may not require specific education or training in alcoholic beverages, that would greatly benefit from the extra knowledge. Whether you are a bartender, manager, or run a convenience store, it's important to further understand the market of alcoholic...

Alcoholic Beverages Key Terms

A mix of alcoholic beverage key terms for your establishment

Bar and/or restaurant ownership and operation can prove to be very lucrative business ventures, especially if you and your staff are familiar with a wide range of alcoholic beverages to serve your customers with. To be able to provide excellent customer service, and to ensure that your bartenders and servers are serving the correct drinks, be sure to learn and educate your staff...

Alcoholic Beverages News and Trends

Find the latest alcoholic beverages news and trends to increase your business' liquor sales

Whether it’s mixed, blended or served straight up, people take pleasure in drinking alcoholic beverages. As a business owner, you know how much your customers love a cold drink after or a hard day. That’s why it’s essential to stay up to date on alcoholic beverages news and trends.To stay abreast with the alcoholic industry’s news and trends, start by...

Alcoholic Beverages for Restaurants

Choosing the right alcoholic beverages increases restaurant profitability

Increasing overall restaurant profitability from the sale of alcohol depends on the type of alcoholic beverage brands a restaurant decides to serve. Alcoholic beverage distributors and beer distributors sell their products to restaurants at wholesale prices. Once the restaurant owner or general manager decides upon the brands of alcoholic beverages to sell, they begin to figure...

Beer Distributor Key Terms

Get in touch with beer distributor terminology

Beer distributors serve a key role in the entire beer industry. Without licensed beer distributors, there would be no regulation on buying and selling beer from the brewer to the retailer. The three-tier regulatory system allows beer distributors to sell barrels of beer at a regulated price as well as ensure that the beer is consumed responsibly. Knowing your beer distributor key...

Beer Distributors News and Trends

Beer distributors news and trends keeps your business informed

Staying on top of beer distributors news and trends is a full time job as brewers large and small bring out new, seasonal and promotional beers. Understanding changes and trends in the beer distribution market helps your business stock the products your customers recognize and request. Keeping up with current news and trends helps you get the best wholesale beer prices from your...

Beer Distributors

Get beer for your restaurant or bar

In the United States, a restaurateur cannot simply place an order with a brewery and have it shipped to the restaurant's door. Instead, restaurants and liquor stores must purchase beer through a licensed beer wholesaler. The beer distributor's job is to deliver fresh, refrigerated wholesale beer to establishments that are allowed to sell alcohol and make sure the...

Liquor Licensing Key Terms

Learn about the types of liquor licensing available

Liquor licensing is an essential tool for many businesses. A bar cannot survive without a liquor license and many restaurants also benefit from the ability to serve alcohol to customers. A business can apply for a liquor license through the state in which the business is located. Since the individual states regulate what businesses receive a liquor license, the requirements may...

Liquor Licensing News and Trends

Keep up to date on liquor license news that affects your business

What are the latest trends in liquor licensing? You can find out by asking other liquor vendors in your area, but that may just give you the local trends. Find out national trends by reading the latest news and legislation issues that affect liquor licensing before you locate a liquor license for sale.What can you do to make the licensing process easier? Read how to get a...

Liquor and Spirits Professional Organizations

Expand your business through liquor and spirits professional organizations

Liquor associations offer an abundance of business opportunities and positive exposure for your business. In addition to the industry members of the liquor trade association, you will have opportunities to meet and get to know other members of the organizations for liquor stores, including business leaders that support the liquor organization.Affiliation with liquor and spirits...

Obtaining a Liquor License

All you need to know for selling, serving, exporting and importing alcoholic beverages

If you want sell alcoholic beverages retail, you need a liquor license from your state liquor authority (SLA), generally known as the State Department of Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC), although the name may vary, depending on your state. You don't need a federal license — that's only for producers, importers, exporters and wholesalers of spirits. The license laws...

Pricing and Costs of Liquor Licensing

Buying a liquor license can be costly in more ways than one

If you're thinking of opening a restaurant that will serve liquor, make sure you get your license in plenty of time. Often, liquor licenses take a bit of time to be approved--in some cases, 45 to 60 days or more, and even up to a year. Some communities have caps on the number of licenses they can issue, so before you buy a restaurant, check out the pricing and costs of...

Whiskey Distributors

Find out the top brands of domestic and imported whiskey

If you’re looking to retail or distribute whiskey, then you should familiarize yourself with the whiskey industry. On the market, there are many top shelf whiskey brands as well as low quality whiskey for sale.Whiskey distillers make their product by distilling fermented grain mash and then allowing it to naturally age before packaging for distribution. Although you can find...

Whiskey Education and Training

Learn the tools for a successful career dealing in whiskey, Scotch whiskey or bourbon

Whether you're interested in a career in imported whiskey, domestic whiskey, bourbon, Scotch whiskey or just anything whiskey, there's a lot more that goes into whiskey education and training than just drinking it. Coopers, master distillers and everyone in between must have a knowledge of the history of the product and an appreciation for its legacy.Taking courses that...

Whiskey Key Terms

Learn the language of the beverage known as "the water of life"

Its name comes from the Gaelic for “water of life,” and whiskey, or "whisky," as it’s spelled in many parts of the world, is certainly a beverage that adds enjoyment to life for many. Whether sipped neat, as with a single-malt Scotch, enjoyed on the rocks or combined to make popular cocktails such as the Old Fashioned and the Manhattan, whiskey is a...

Whiskey Pricing and Costs

Consider the cost of adding whiskey drinks to your beverage list

Adding whiskey to your beverage list enables you to appeal to whiskey aficionados; however, the decision to do this will take a significant increase in your beverage budget. The price you will pay for the whiskey depends largely on the whiskey brands you choose. Vintage and bottle size will also affect the price of the whiskey. Consider the following points to prepare your budget...

Wine Importers and Exporters Basics

What US wine distributors need to know to start up

It is a very exciting time to be involved with wine importers and exporters, as the industry is branching off in new, profitable directions. Before you start, make sure you know the wine importers and exporters basics that are essential to the success of your business.There are three main facets to the wine industry: wine importers, wine exporters and wine makers. Each...

Wine Importers and Exporters Key Terms

Learn about the requirements for importing and exporting wine

United States wine importers must comply with a number of regulations to participate in this practice. To import wines into the United States, a vintner must obtain certification from the federal government. Exporters also have their own set of rules. To export wine, a vintner is required to comply with labeling standards from the Food and Drug Administration as well as the...

Wine Importers and Exporters News and Trends

Stay informed when importing and exporting wine

With the culture of wine erupting in popularity, wine importers and exporters have to stay competitive. Largely influenced by rising and falling trends, it is important for US wine distributors to keep up to date with wine importers and exporters news and trends to see what is currently popular, and to predict what will be the next big thing.There is a wide range of factors which...

Wine Importers and Exporters

Drink a toast to the art and business of importing and exporting wine

Wine importers and exporters put people in touch with the wines of the world, importing wine for US consumption and developing new markets for the products of US vineyards. It's a business on the upswing, with US per capita wine consumption hitting a new high of 3.02 gallons per capita in 2007, and both the wine importing sector and sales of US export wines setting new...

Working with Alcoholic Beverage Distributors and Wholesalers

Finding the best alcohol wholesalers to provide your customers drinks

Since the repeal of prohibition in 1933, American business owners have been working with alcoholic beverage distributors and wholesalers to stock wine and spirits for their businesses and the relationship continues today. As a business owner, you’re aware of the importance of alcohol distributors in your business.As a result of the need for wholesale alcohol and a good...

Working with Beer Distributors

Working with beer distributors keeps your business stocked with the beer your customers want

With so many beer distributors across the country it is difficult to always know which ones will best serve your business. Beer distributors do more than just deliver cold refreshments, they provide signs and promotional materials that help your business sell more beer. Carrying a full selection of beers often requires working with multiple beer distributors as each will...