Learn how your favorite beverages get to your local bars, restaurants, and stores
It’s a labor-intensive and expensive process to fulfill custom wine orders to NC retailers.
Casual observers believe the beverage alcohol market is easy and recession-proof. Not quite. All three segments of the business have been in a slump since the end of the pandemic. Consumer buying habits have changed and inflation has taken a serious bite out of everyone’s pocket. Of those three segments, it is wine that faces the most challenging road ahead.
All three segments of the beverage alcohol world have joined forces to strongly advocate against an organized effort by neo-prohibitionists who want to make radical changes to the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.A coalition which includes the National Beer Wholesalers Association, Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Beer Institute, Brewers Association, Wine Institute and DISCUS has launched a consumer-friendly website at www.scienceoverbias.com.
N.C. and U.S. beer distributors have donated a combined $75,000 to the N.C. Disaster Relief Fund. Distributors and our partners are delivering hundreds of thousands of bottles and cans of water to support relief efforts in Western NC. Stay strong WNC! #Helene #ncpol
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A big thank you to NC Labor Commissioner candidate Luke Farley for visiting the headquarters of Long Beverage in Raleigh. #ncpol
Beer and wine excise taxes contributed $156 million to the General Fund in FY 23-24. That's a 2.2% decrease from the previous FY and represents an overall slowdown in beer & wine volume sales. Beer is responsible for $124 million of the overall tax dollar total. #ncpol
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