Before a Brewer Terminates: Lessons from Titan’s Florida Franchise Fight
A beer distribution agreement can promise a 30-day exit without supplying a lawful basis...
Category: Distribution Agreements
Coors’ Colorado Fight: What Beer Distributors Should Fix Before a Supplier Leaves
Coors’ Colorado dispute shows why beer distributors should negotiate termination payments, transfer deadlines, and interim relief together. Includes sample contract language preserving distributor remedies.
Before You Sign a Distribution Deal: Lessons from Arkansas’s Kirkland Signature Wine Case
When a legislature defines a word, courts should start with that definition. Justice Nicholas...
Beverage Cold Storage Clauses: Protect the Product—and the Proof
Beverage cold storage clauses should do more than name a temperature. They should assign...
Can a Beer Supplier Take Decades of Goodwill for Free? Coors’ 90-Day Fight
What good is a statutory right to cure a breach if a supplier can...
New Distributor, Wrong Courthouse: Wine Franchise Fight Kicked Back to State Court – But Could Have Been Avoided
Can a supplier line up a replacement distributor and then argue that the replacement...
When Suppliers Walk Away from Inventory: What Alcohol Distributors Can Learn from Labatt USA v. Friends Beverage Group
Alcohol distributors know the scenario too well: a brand underperforms, the parties agree to...
Oral Beer Distribution Agreements Do Get Franchise Protection and the Recent —Oak v. Yuengling Shows How to Plead Them
It finally happened. New York courts have at last spoken clearly on a question...
Defining The Brand: Protecting Distributor Goodwill When Non-Alcoholic Brands Enter the Alcohol Market
In the recent federal court decision from the Western District of Michigan, Capitol Beverage...
Navigating Supplier Relationships: Lessons From a Recent Decision on Wholesaler Agreements
A recent court decision [link to decision] involving a prominent Connecticut wholesaler and one...
JRC Beverage, Inc. v. K.P. Global, Inc.: A Milestone in Protecting Wholesalers under Alcoholic Beverage Control Law §55-c
In a landmark decision, the New York Appellate Division, Second Department, has reinforced the...
The Sixth Circuit Misses the Mark in Cavalier v. Lime Ventures – Failing to Protect the Value Distributors Create in Brands
In its recent decision in Cavalier Distributing Co., Inc. v. Lime Ventures, Inc. (link...
