Chicago’s proposed liquor tax chooses teachers union over immigrant business owners

By |2024-11-01T19:51:54+00:00November 1st, 2024|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

I grew up as the son of an Irish immigrant raised in a predominantly Italian, Polish and Irish neighborhood. There were very few people from other parts of the world living in my neighborhood. But I always had an inquisitive mind and always had a desire to learn about different cultures. My exposure to world […]

WHO demonizing of alcohol, are their alarms real?

By |2024-10-14T19:44:35+00:00October 14th, 2024|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) is on a mission to destroy the alcohol industry, but on their quest, have they provided fuel to their critics?

WHO’s position has come so far off the center that it could be sacrificing its credibility. WHO’s radical position reminds me of my time at the University of North […]

Liquor Industry needs to stand its ground

By |2024-09-22T21:13:06+00:00September 22nd, 2024|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

The liquor industry sales are falling and the negative consequences to the industry are real. Wine sales are down, beer sales are down, and spirits sales are up only because of RTD sales.

But we should not think of this negative impact as falling faceless numbers, we should think of the human element of what these […]

Biden’s Treasury Report, they slay the wrong dragon

By |2024-07-25T21:21:30+00:00July 25th, 2024|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

It was to great excitement in February of 2022 that I read the Treasury’s report on competition in the alcohol industry. Finally, a high up government agency that identified flaws and could become an agent for change.

The report focused on important topics such as the threats posed by wholesaler consolidation and the inability of […]

What will non-alcohol product regulation look like?

By |2024-07-15T01:00:36+00:00July 15th, 2024|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

The industry is ablaze with the talk of non-alcoholic beverages rise in the marketplace. According to IWSR, overall volume year-to-year grew 29%.

With growth in this category transitioning from sleepy to emerging, there will no doubt be more scrutiny.

Recently, we have seen enhanced scrutiny on non-alcoholic brands that transitioned into the alcohol space. Brands like Eggo […]

Trump or Biden: Who has the better alcohol policies?

By |2024-07-04T16:49:52+00:00July 4th, 2024|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

With a bitterly divided electorate and a contentious presidential election coming, I am going to try to take a sober look at alcohol policy from the two administrations, and compare and contrast and determine who has the better policy.

Interestingly enough, neither of these men drink, Trump holds liquor licenses through his business, I have no […]

WSWA labels themselves the vanguard for free markets

By |2024-06-27T20:18:22+00:00June 27th, 2024|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

Towards the end of spring WSWA took time to trash those that want to dismantle the three-tier system, as people opposed to safety and competition in the alcohol space.

Much of their piece was based on the benefits the three-tier system provides and that dismantling the three-tier system would take us back to a time […]

Lina Khan, make her the Queen of Liquor

By |2024-06-16T01:59:33+00:00June 16th, 2024|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

As Lina Khan is in the mood for excessive regulatory creep, I have a solution. We should embolden her with titles that are befit for royalty. Being Chair of the FTC does not seem like enough for her, and she has shown an empirical thirst for other titles, I say we acquiesce and make her […]

The Barbarians are at the gate

By |2024-05-22T20:08:44+00:00May 22nd, 2024|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

With the attacks on the alcohol industry coming more frequently and louder from the Neo-Prohibitionist movement, many of us in the alcohol industry are left to wonder, are we in peril of becoming the new tobacco?

The tobacco industry paid billions of dollars in damages based on their product’s damaging health impacts, and it was required […]

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