Month: July 2019
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I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.
After years and years of chasing, buying, and stripping companies, InBev announced, prior to the release of their latest earnings report, that the company has sold their Australian business to the Japanese brewer, Asahi, for $11.3 billion. ABI said they sold that business to reduce their massive debt, which was brought on by the recent […]
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A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.
In the last 35 years, no brand has come close to the growth of Corona. The brand went from being in a position of not even having a hand full of distributors who could sell a layer of the beer, must less a pallet, to the current situation of now selling over 150 million cases of Corona. The […]
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Happy Anniversary…..year 7!
And now, on to year number eight….
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Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.
In a conversation several years ago with a distributor who had recently sold his large, successful operation, the distributor commented on the challenges he encountered trying to train and maintain company employees. As an illustration, he referred to the tradition of sports teams and the amount of training and preparation, often a full five days, […]
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If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?