Exited our Craft Beer Investment.

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April 03, 2025

by a searcher from Stanford University - Graduate School of Business in Healdsburg, CA 95448, USA

Happy to mention that we recently exited our craft beer investment. We acquired Anderson Valley Brewing Co. in December 2019 as a closely held business and operated it until last week. AVBC was a turn around project that required a lot of direct operational and marketing work that was made more difficult by the pandemic. Happy to say that after 5 years that saw a renovation of its distribution relationships and footprint, a restart of its export programs, a complete revision of its packaging and branding and the building of a consumer-facing marketing function from scratch we have now exited and are on to the next thing.

Cheers all.

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from University of Virginia in Miami, FL, USA
Awesome, congrats
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from Stanford University in Healdsburg, CA 95448, USA
Good distributor-supplier relationships are absolutely critical. We had over 50, and another###-###-#### foreign importers that we worked with. Distribution businesses are in large part about scale, geography and portfolio. Where are you looking?
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