1. Trends & External Forces

NBWA CEO: Beers Needs ‘Durability’ When ‘There Are New Rules to the Game’

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For both the beer industry and the larger political and social environment, “there are new rules to the game,” National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) president and CEO Craig Purser said in his opening remarks of the trade group’s Annual Convention in San Diego.

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