Month: August 2013
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Show me the money………
Many college students have no idea what career path they want to pursue when starting college; however, by the end of my second summer as a college helper for Coors, I had decided that the beer business was my future. I was determined to own a distributorship by the time I turned 30. By my late 20s, […]
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It’s the economy stupid……
By the time the 21st amendment was ratified in 1933, the country was in the Great Depression. Unemployment numbers were not sugar-coated in those days as they are now, and the jobless rate was reported as high as 25%. One in four adults was out of work. Once the depression had reached its depth, the brewers got smart. By […]
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Character matters; leadership desends from character…
It was in the mid 1960s that Coors decided to expand into North Texas which made Coors available in 10 states and a portion of Texas. Ten years later, they expanded into the remainder of Texas. At the time, Coors was so popular that people would drive miles out of their way to pick up […]
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We have deep depth……….
Right after college I was a Falstaff route salesman in Austin. My route was the east side of town, in fact; I had east 3rd street before it was the place to party. Most of my accounts were bars, usually one to two cases per stop, but I did service Bergstrom Air Force base and […]