Month: October 2014
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If you have to brag about how good you are, than you are probably not that good!
By the late 1970s, Coors had a market share of well over 50% in Kansas. In fact, Coors had close to 70% share in some rural markets in western Kansas. In Wichita, where I was, Coors had a share of 60%. Remember, during this time in the beer industry, Coors’ houses were exclusive, and the […]
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If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
In 2006, Maureen Ogle’s outstanding book about the history of the beer business in the US, Ambitious Brew, opens with the arrival of Germans around 1844. She writes that due to the oppression to the German speaking Europeans, many decided their future was not in Europe, but in the US, so they left their home continent. The […]
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If you want the rainbow, you have got to put up with the rain.
A recent post highlighted how the golf industry and the beer industry could, in some ways, be heading down similar paths. There were several responses to that post. What was not discussed, however, which currently is, and will be an issue in the future, is one of bifurcation. There is a small, but vocal movement within the golf […]
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The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
In the summer of 1996, while working at Gambrinus, I was asked to spend two days with Andrew Oland, who was a member of the family who owns Moosehead in St. Johns. Andrew at the time was getting his MBA at Harvard, and his summer assignment was to research US beer importers. Moosehead was looking […]