Month: August 2014

  • Successful People Do What It Takes To Be A Success Other People Do What Ever They Want !

    In Texas, it was CR Goodman; in Florida, it was Fresh; in Arizona, it was Little Guy Distributing; in Washington, it was Click; and in Illinois, it was Windy City.  All of these companies became, for different reasons, specialty beer distributors/importers.  None of these companies represented either AB or MC. Each of these distributors sold […]

  • Sound strategy starts with having the right goal..

    Oettinger Brauerei is the largest brewery located in Germany with sales of over six million hectoliters annually.  They do this in a very unusually way, they do not advertise and they sell directly to stores (no wholesalers) which can be done in Germany. The brewery is highly automated with very few employees and their sales […]

  • The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do…

      In the late 1940s, Coors entered Texas by opening El Paso and Amarillo.  Further expansion did not take place until the mid-1960s when Coors moved into the remainder of West Texas and the DFW market.  The success of the two original markets, El Paso holding a 60%+ share, allowed Coors to appoint new exclusive […]

  • Cardinal Puffs

    Sometime between the summer of 1972 and 1973, during one of many trips to my friends’ favorite watering hole, we met John Ahern.  The bar, The Lyon’s Pub, was located just across Central Expressway from SMU, making it a big hangout for college students.  The Lyon’s Pub was also just one block off Greenville Ave., […]