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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lion last year, while seventh-ranked New Hampshire saw sales gain almost $19 million. For its part, Oregon grew sales by almost $24 million in FY 2012, and Utah like- wise saw about a $15.6 million jump over FY 2011. For the first time in quite awhile, control state agencies overall reduced operating expenses. Seven jurisdiction reported lower operational expenditures, ten increased expenses, and one remained the same. [As in previous years, Maine's agency no longer reports operational expenses.] Still, control state agencies must remain engaged in their mandates from their individual states – such as, on a state-by-state basis, providing edu- cational and enforcement initiatives, adopting best practices across all business platforms including techno- logical updates, successfully delivering revenue while providing programs to minimize alcohol abuse, to name a few. With this in mind, we can expect expenditures to gradually increase as the overall economy improves. And, as we've said here before, generally speaking, these increases can be viewed positively, for they often end up providing long-term benefits to the entire con- trol system (efficiently balancing social responsibility efforts with revenue for the states). The following pages, then, represent the individual statistics for Fiscal Year 2012 for each of the 19 control jurisdictions. All dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest tenth. FY '11 Gross Dollar Sales (Spirits, wine) $363.0 m Revenue Contribution $145.7 m Distilled Spirits (Mixed cases) Operating Expenses Retail Outlets Employees (full-time) 2.20 m $69.6 m Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (Fiscal year end: 9/30/12) FY '12 $377.0 m $173.3 m 2.28 m $68.5 m 164 state stores 172 state stores 684 677 (624 store; 53 product & warehouse) Projected gross sales for FY 2013: $380.8 m Projected revenue contribution for FY 2013: 175.0 m — Opening of eight additional stores. Gross Sales (Spirits, wine) $143.9 m Revenue Contribution $50.2 m Distilled Spirits (9-liter cases) 921.383 Wine (9-liter cases) Operating Expenses Retail Outlets 9,495 $18.8 m All dollar amounts rounded to nearest tenth FY '11 State Liquor Dispensary (Fiscal year end: 6/30/12) $153.6 m $63.1 m* 959,494 8.906** $19.8 m*** 66 state stores 66 state stores 97 contract retailers 97 contract retailers Employees (full-time equivalents) 204 Projected gross sales for FY 2013: $159.8 m Projected revenue contribution for FY 2013: $56.7 m * Includes one-time $8 million payment. **State stores sell only Idaho-produced wines. Wine is not part of the control system, and the vast majority of Idaho wine is sold via traditional retail channels. *** Total payroll and operating expenses StateWays s www.stateways.com s November/December 2012 205 FY '12 All dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest tenth. FY '11 Gross Sales (Spirits only) $221.1 m Revenue Contribution $108.6 m Distilled Spirits (Mixed cases) Operating Expenses Retail Outlets (approximate) Employees 1.73 m $6.4 m Division of Alcoholic Beverages (Fiscal year end: 6/30/12) FY '12 $242.2 m $115.3 m 1.87 m $7.6 m 986 off-premise 1,147 off-premise retail liquor stores retail liquor stores 71 (full-time) 82 (full-time) Projected gross sales for FY 2013: $230.0 m Projected revenue contribution for FY 2013: $109.5 m — Legislation effective July 1, 2011, removed restrictions on convenience stores and gas stations from holding licenses to sell spirits. As of September 30, 2012, Iowa has 322 convenience stores selling spirits statewide. 13