Direct shipping of wine is now mainstream in much of the United States. Last year, volume of direct-shipped wine was up 15.3% to 5.78 million cases, with consumer spending growing 15.5% to $2.69 billion, according to the 2018 Direct to Consumer Wine Shipping Report by Sovos and Wines & Vines.
The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) is partnering with social media sites to encourage responsible alcohol advertising that doesn’t target minors or those that don’t want to receive it.
Robert Tobiassen is legal consultant based in Virginia. He spent 34 years working for the federal service with regulatory, taxation and administrative and judicial enforcement experience within the domestic and global alcohol industry.
William Grant & Son’s global head of strategy Victor Jerez has left his position at the Scotch whisky giant to pursue opportunities in the US’ fledgeling legal cannabis market.
...the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism changed information on its website to say that “there is a strong scientific consensus of an association between alcohol drinking and several types of cancer” ...
A new Dollar General Store on the outskirts of Texarkana in a community known as Genoa can now sell beer and wine -- despite public opposition and an initial denial by Mary Robin Casteel, director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration Division.
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION — U.S. adults consumed more than 17 billion binge drinks in 2015, or about 470 binge drinks per binge drinker, according to a first-of-its-kind study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Laws regulating home delivery must be introduced in the forthcoming Public Health Alcohol Bill, the special rapporteur for child protection, Dr Geoffrey Shannon, has warned.
CANTON - The city will consider a revised proposal to regulate packaged liquor stores. In the proposal, liquor stores are defined and some zoning districts are exempt.
On Monday, Sept. 9, after the second reading of an ordinance amendment, the Fenton City Council voted unanimously to change the local ordinance on the purchase, possession and consumption of alcoholic liquor by minors to mirror state law.