Bottling & Distribution Industry Competitors

One of Southern California's and the nation's largest black-owned businesses, Beauchamp Distributing delivers both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to retailers throughout the Los Angeles area. The company is managed by its founder, Pat Beauchamp who located his company in Compton, California in 1984; Beauchamp started up the company in 1971....

Cherokee Distributing Company is a wholesaler of Miller, Corona, Molson, and Beck's beer. The distributor, based in Knoxville, Tennessee, also sellsPabst Blue Ribbon and Heineken....

Click Wine Group imports mostly Australian wines to the US but has gained more fame from its French label, Fat Bastard. The company is a co-owner of the label, which sells for $10 to $12 a bottle and aims to strip wine of its perceived haughtiness. The wine is the third largest selling French brand in the US....

Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd. (CCE) makes sure you can buy "The Real Thing" in the UK, as well as Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The company is the UK subsidiary of the world's #1 bottler of Coke products, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. CCE manufactures and distributes more than 650,000 cases of Coca-Cola products -- including Coke, Capri-Sun, Fanta, Sprite, Lilt, Powerade, Nestea, Minute Maid, and Oasis -- every day, which equals about 240 million cases of soda, juice, water, and sports drinks annually....

Embotelladoras Arca, S.A. de C.V. (Arca) wants you to have some Joya in life. The second largest distributor of Coca-Cola products in Mexico (Coca-Cola FEMSA is #1), Arca sold its Joya trademarks and formulas to Coca-Cola in 2004 but continues to produce and distribute the brand itself....

The fortunes of Future Brands rest on the purveyance of potent potables. The company is a joint venture formed bythe US's Fortune Brands and Sweden's V&S Group. The Future Brands collaboration was prompted in part by V&S's major push in 2001 to increase distribution of Absolut, which is the top-selling imported vodka in the US....

Cincinnati-based G & J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers delivers. And it has done so for the more than 40 years that it has distributed Pepsi products in Ohio and Kentucky. The company is one of the larger Pepsi bottlers in the US, shipping the leading PepsiCo brands, including Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Slice, SoBe, and Aquafina to beverage retailers....

Florida-based Gold Coast Beverages, considered the largest beer wholesaler in the state, also distributes a variety of wine and Zephyrhills bottled water in Miami, Pompano Beach, and Rockland Key. (Zephyrhills is a division of Nestlé Waters.) Among the many brands Gold Coast distributes are Bavaria, Beck's, Corona, Guinness, Heineken, Labatt, Pabst, and Shiner, Miller, and Coors....

Liquid Investments supplies beer, malt beverages, soda, energy drinks, and water to customers in parts of California and Colorado. The company owns the Mesa Beverage Co. in Santa Rosa, California, from which it handles some 1,500 accounts in Sonoma and Marin counties....

Luxco (formerly David Sherman Corporation) markets, distributes, and bottles regional brands of wines, rums, bourbons, tequilas, vodkas, and other alcoholic beverages. Among its portfolio are Admiral Nelson's rum; Ezra Brooks bourbon, Inferno vodka, and Saint Brendan's Irish Cream Liqueur....

Martignetti Companies owns both retail and wholesale outlets for selling beer, wine, and spirits in Massachusetts and parts of New England. The company also is a partner in Maine Beverage Company, which controls liquor distribution in that state. Its 435,000-square-foot temperature-controlled warehouse in Massachusetts offers more than 3,500 varieties of wine....

Alcohol is the raison d'être for Maxxium Worldwide -- and it may have something to do with the "creative" spelling of its name. The company was formed in 1999 by The Edrington Group of Scotland, the US's Beam Global Spirits & Wine (part of Fortune Brands), and France's Rémy Cointreau to distribute wine and liquor outside the US....

Mutual Distributing Company is a wholesale distributor of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages in North Carolina. The company, which started up in 1946, operates from seven branch offices located throghout the state. Wine and beer brands handled by Mutual Distributing include both domestics and imports such as Moet & Chandon, Heineken and Sapporo....

Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. of Ft. Lauderdale-Palm Beach distributes PepsiCo' Pepsi-branded soft drinks, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Tropicana juices, Aquafina water, and more to six Florida counties, including south Florida's well-known Broward and Palm Beach counties....

Wholesale distributor Premier Beverage provides wine, spirits, and nonalcoholic beverages to licensed retailers in Florida. It operates from facilities in Jacksonville, Miramar, Orlando, Pensacola, and Tampa. The company, which represents a variety of suppliers, distributes wine through its Augustan and Noble divisions....

Brands across the water. Made in France; distributed and enjoyed in the US. Rémy Cointreau USA makes sure les Américains have ample opportunity to imbibe in all of parent company Rémy Cointreau's liquid products. Rémy Cointreau USA (formerly known as Rémy Amerique) distributes the champagnes, cognacs, liquors, and spirits of Rémy Cointreau in the US and Caribbean....

Reyes Holdings has a grip on two things that are complementary -- food and beer. The company is a leading food and beverage wholesale distributor serving customers throughout the US, Canada, and Latin America. Its The Martin-Brower Company is a leading supplier of both food and non-food products for the McDonald's restaurant chain....

RNDC Texas, LLC (also known as Republic National Distributing Company) is one of the largest distributors of wine and spirits in the US (right up there with big-boy, Charmer Sunbelt), serving 17 US states and Washington, DC. It operated as the Republic Beverage Company until 2007, when it combined its operations with most of those of National Distributing (National retained the Georgia and New Mexico territories)....

SHS Group will get your juices going -- and your cider, alcopop, and frozen foods, too. The firm makes and markets the WKD line of alcopop (made from a mixture of vodka and fruit juice) throughout the UK, and also distributes Cobra beer, Tropicana juice, Douwe Egberts coffee, and various types of groceries....

John Nau, President and CEO of Silver Eagle Distributors, probably doesn't lose sleep if there's a bear market on Wall Street -- just as long as there's a beer market in Houston (where it's the #1 beer distributor).. Silver Eagle, one of the leading beer wholesalers throughout the entire US, handles mostly Anheuser-Busch products; it also sells Michelob, Bacardi, Kirin, Tequiza, and Redhook products....