Beverage Dynamics

Beverage Dynamics Sept-Oct 2014

Beverage Dynamics is the largest national business magazine devoted exclusively to the needs of off-premise beverage alcohol retailers, from single liquor stores to big box chains, through coverage of the latest trends in wine, beer and spirits.

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6 Beverage Dynamics • September/October 2014 www.beveragedynamics.com Editor-in-Chief Richard Brandes Tel: 212-353-3832 Fax: 212-353-8214 email: rbrandes@specialtyim.com Digital Editor Jeremy Nedelka Tel: 203-855-8499 x213 email: jnedelka@specialtyim.com Contributing Editors Melissa Dowling Julie Johnson Harriet Lembeck Melissa Niksic Jack Robertiello Kate Strandness Senior Regional Sales Manager Bruce Kostic Tel: 203-855-8499, ext. 215 bkostic@specialtyim.com Senior Regional Sales Manager Mark Marcon Tel: 248-761-6231 mmarcon@specialtyim.com Senior Regional Sales Manager Debbie Rittenberg Tel: 215-860-0306 drittenberg@specialtyim.com Art Director Adam Lane Production Director Cherri Perschmann Tel: 763-383-4400, ext. 2425 cperschmann@epgmediallc.com Senior Research Analyst Adam Rogers LIST RENTAL MeritDirect, Jim Scova email: jscova@MeritDirect.com Tel: 914-368-1012 REPRINTS Circulation and Audience Development Manager Robin Cooper email: rcooper@specialtyim.com Sr VP/Audience Development Joanne Juda-Prainito Sr VP/Finance & Operations Gerald Winkel VP/Beverage Group Amy Collins Senior Art Director Dodi Vessels RETAILER EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Charles Bailes III ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, Orlando,FL Ralph Bondon Berbiglia's, Kansas City, MO David Breitstein Duke of Bourbon, Canoga Park, CA Jim Shpall Applejack Liquors, Wheat Ridge, CO Hal Gershman Happy Harry's Bottle Shop, Grand Forks, ND Ron Junge Brown Derby Stores, Springfi eld, MO Ted Farrell Haskell's, Minneapolis, MN Charles Sonnenberg Frugal MacDoogal's, Nashville, TN Beverage Dynamics is published by Specialty Information Media Editorial and executive offi ces at 17 High St., 2nd Fl., Norwalk, CT 06851 Telephone: 203-855-8499 Fax: 203-855-9446 Editor's NOTE LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY IN MAY 1990, I became editor of this magazine. I remember in the ensuing months writing my fi rst story on American whiskey, an opus on light beer and a profi le of Bayway Liquors, in Elizabeth, NJ, which is still in operation. That was followed by a piece on Champagne and a story on merchandising luxury spirits. It was a little scary at fi rst, because I was a novice in most things beverage alcohol, but I continued to learn. And I'm still learning to this day, more than 24 years later. It's not an original thought, but you turn around and two dozen years fl ash by, and you look down at the half-price Metro card for seniors in your hand and realize that if you're ever going to try something different, maybe now is the time. But it's not easy to leave, because even though it's a job, with its hassles and boredom, it's still fun and interesting the rest of the time. So, what to do? In my case, I listened to my 27-year-old son, who nudged me gently in this direction by saying, "If not now, then when?" So, I'm saying good-bye to a pretty cool job, covering a pretty cool industry with lots of pretty cool people making a decent living doing all sorts of things. First, there are the retailers, our primary readership. I've undoubtedly spoken with hundreds of you through the years, and with few exceptions, you've always gone out of your way to provide useful information to us and genuinely cooperate in trying to describe and explain to us what it is you do. For that, I'm grateful. Then, there are the wine, beer and spirits suppliers. Though they are often busy, they have generally made the time to provide key information to help us do the job of publicizing the latest products and trends that help defi ne the industry. I'm also grateful to the legions of public relations representatives, who are endlessly cheerful in presenting their clients' many products and services, and who have many times helped us to contact the right people for our stories. Finally, I've been lucky to fi nd a group of writers who make it almost easy to be an editor (notice I said "almost," guys and girls), and an art director, Adam Lane, who is an ace at graphic design. The new editor, Jeremy Nedelka, has been working with our beverage magazines for the past several years, and I'm sure he'll do an excellent job. Just to help out with the transition, I'm going to be hanging around for a couple of months to advise Jeremy if he has any questions. Then, in the words of the immortal Huck Finn: "I reckon I got to light out for the territory." Maybe, if luck has it, I'll see some of you there. Richard Brandes Editor-in-Chief

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