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An Ounce of Compliance is worth a Pound of Data Breach Cleanup

For most wine stores their efforts to secure information against possible theft have been driven by banks and the card issuing companies.  The Payment Card Industry (PCI) launched its campaign to define security standards in 2006, and has been largely successful in promoting these standards to retailers and their vendors.  Now a new source of [...]

Have you talked to your Wholesaler about Interstate Shipping?

Have you talked to your Wholesaler about Interstate Shipping? We have a unique view of the wine industry at Beverage Media in that we work with retailers, wholesalers, importers and wineries to support their businesses. Of these industry players the mostly maligned tends to be the wholesaler who is hidden from public view and appears [...]

New York’s Liquor Authority conducting a review

After that state’s Law Review Commission concluded that NY’s State Liquor Authority (SLA) was fundamentally broken, the agency has been included in the first round of a state agency review process by Governor Patterson.
The Governor recently signed “Executive Order 25, which requires state agencies to conduct a review of their regulations to identify those that impose [...]

The Campaign to Create a National Market for Wine Retailers

It’s pretty clear that retailers have been slow to organize in their own defense. For at least ten years, wineries have been campaigning for the right to ship direct to consumers, their triumph being the Granholm vs. Heald Supreme Court decision in May 2005. As a result wineries have access to direct shipping in a [...]