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Women in Beverage: Mara Smith

Cheers

How did you get into the beverage alcohol business? I’m a newcomer to the beverage alcohol industry. I read industry circulars, subscribed to newsletters, listened to webinars, read books, joined industry networks and even took a course offered by the CRT in Mexico on the production and history of tequila.

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Craft Brewing’s ‘Painful Period of Rationalization’ Is Here. Finally.

VinePair

Distributors and retailers shifted focus to imports, flavored malt beverages, and non-alcoholic offerings. In comments in a webinar on the year-end materials reported by Brewbound, he noted that the segments closure rate, while now in the red for the first time since 2005, is still low compared to the hospitality sector at large.