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StateWays - March/April 2015

StateWays is the only magazine exclusively covering the control state system within the beverage alcohol industry, with annual updates from liquor control commissions and alcohol control boards and yearly fiscal reporting from control jurisdictions

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StateWays ■ www.stateways.com ■ March/April 2015 8 D A T E L I N E Fiscal Year-in-Review Adjustments D ue to inconsistencies in the collection of data, State- Ways would like to retract the 2013 and 2014 Fis- cal Year in Review features, which ran in the November/ December 2013 and November/December 2014 issues of this magazine. While in many cases errors can be fi xed with a simple correction, in this case that isn't possible. The misreport- ed data pertains to Pennsylvania, the largest control state by a two-to-one margin, which skews the overall fi gures for both years. The correct FY2013 and FY2014 data for the PLCB can be found here, as supplied by Oren Bachman, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's Director of Fi- nance. As indicated, unit sales of wine and spirits each rose by 2.3 percent between fi scal years 2013 and 2014. The correct totals for wine and spirit sales (including state liquor tax) were $2.043 billion in FY13 and $2.107 billion in FY14. We've also included an updated version of the Key Statistics chart from the 2014 Fiscal Year in Review feature. StateWays regrets this error and will amend the data going forward so that future editions of the Fiscal Year in Review do not contain the incorrect data. PENNSYLVANIA Liquor Control Board Fiscal year ended June 30 FY '13 FY '14 Change Spirits cases sold 6.44m 6.59m +2.3% Wine cases sold 6.92m 7.08m +2.3% Sales $2.042b $2.107b +3.2% (including liquor tax) KEY STATISTICS Fiscal Year 2014 Totals from all 18 jurisdictions FY '13 FY '14 Change Gross Sales $9,176 $9,292 +1.3% (Millions) Revenue Contribution $2,693 $2,721 +1.1% (Millions) Distilled Spirits Sales 45.4 46.0 +1.3% (Millions of cases) Operating Expenses $1,083 $1,130 +4.4% (Millions) Source: StateWays data compiled from individual control states. Tim Holden Named Chairman of PLCB P ennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has named former U.S. Congressman Tim Holden as chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Holden has served as a member of the board since 2013. Outgoing chairman Skip Brion will continue to serve as a mem- ber of the board. Throughout Holden's career, he's served as an insurance broker, real estate agent, Sergeant-at-Arms of the PA House of Representatives, and as a county sheriff. He was a member of Congress for 10 terms, serving from 1993-2012. During that time he served on the Agricultural Committee. Tim Holden

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