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closeTuesday, Jul. 15, 2008
Beverage company details purchase plan
Ingrid Stegemoeller, Herald staff writer
A beverage distribution group that includes a company with a branch in Kennewick announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire a portion of Alaska Distributors Co.
CoHo Distributing, the name of the soon-to- be merged business, which will be made up of Columbia Distributing Company, Mt. Hood Beverage Company and Gold River Distributing, intends to take over the Western Washington beer and portions of the nonalcoholic beverage business of Alaska Distributors.
Mt. Hood Beverage Company has a branch in Kennewick.
Young's Columbia also will purchase part of Alaska Distributors Western Washington wine business that will be serviced by CoHo.
The addition will bring CoHo's annual sales to more than 40 million cases of beer and nonalcoholic beverages.
-- Ingrid Stegemoeller: 582-1537; istegemoeller@tricityherald.com; Business Beat blog at www.tricityherald.com
| Pratik Joshi covers technology, employment, transportation, economic development and industrial growth. He joined the Herald in December 2006. He likes to write stories that educate. And there's hardly a subject he's not interested in. Drop him a line at pjoshi@tricityherald.com. | Ingrid Stegemoeller joined the Herald as a business reporter in September 2007. She covers the real estate and retail industries, as well as tourism. She says the best part of her job is meeting new people and hearing their stories. E-mail her at istegemoeller@tricityherald.com |
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