Various manufacturers in the alcoholic beverage industry encourage responsible use of alcohol. They provide information services through print and electronic resources and work with young people who are getting ready to drive so that they know drinking and driving are dangerous.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On America Recycles Day and every day, the non-alcoholic beverage industry is committed to further minimizing its environmental footprint by reducing, reusing and recycling. Our industry's commitment to recycling shows not only through our 100 percent recyclable packaging, but also through our efforts to minimize waste and to support recycling programs," said Susan Neely, American Beverage Association president and CEO.
While they drank more liquor last year, people turned to cheaper brands, according to a recently released report by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a national trade association for the alcoholic beverage industry. The state's Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC), an arm of the state tax commission that is tasked with regulating the sale and consumption of alcohol, garnered a net profit of a little over $50 million--with alcohol and sales taxes added, the total ABC collections for FY 2009 was $91.6 million.
Calling it a measure to curb obesity and the substantial public health costs of obesity-related health problems, Paterson in his executive budget last month proposed an excise tax of $7.68 per gallon for beverage syrups or simple syrups and $1.28 per gallon for bottled soft drinks, powders or base product. Sugar in doughnuts--is that not a problem? If sugar is the demon, he said, Why demonize beverages? Spokesmen for Pepsico and Pepsi Bottling Group referred questions about the soda tax to the American Beverage Association in Washington, D.C., a 91-year-old lobbying group for the non-alcoholic beverage industry.
DeSoto residents who imbibe seem to be following a statewide trend of continuing to drink but reaching for cheaper brands in a poor economy. A recently released report by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a national trade association for the alcoholic beverage industry, shows that Mississippians drank more liquor in 2009 but went for the lower prices.
It only took 11 years. The state Board of Public Works' recent approval of a settlement in the long-running fight over Maryland's liquor laws should be just the first step toward a much-needed modernization of the state's antiquated regulatory system of the alcoholic beverage industry.
PERHAPS like many sensible citizens, you read Investor's Business Daily for its sturdy common sense in defending free markets and other rational arrangements. If so, you too may have been startled recently by an astonishing statement on that newspaper's front page. It was in a report on the intention of the world's second-largest brewer, Belgium's InBev, to buy control of the third-largest, Anheuser-Busch, for $46.3 billion. The story asserted: "The (alcoholic beverage) industry's continued growth, however slight, has been a surprise to those who figured that when the economy turned south, consumers would cut back on nonessential items like beer. ... Non what?" Do not try to peddle that proposition in the bleachers or at the beaches in July. It is closer to the truth to say: No beer, ...
Perhaps like many sensible citizens, you read Investor's Business Daily for its sturdy common sense in defending free markets and other rational arrangements. If so, you might have been startled recently by an astonishing statement on that newspaper's front page. It was in a report on the intention of the world's second-largest brewer, Belgium's InBev, to buy control of the third-largest, Anheuser-Busch, for $46.3 billion. The story asserted: "The (alcoholic beverage) industry's continued growth, however slight, has been a surprise to those who figured that when the economy turned south, consumers would cut back on nonessential items like beer. ... Non what"? Do not try to peddle that proposition in the bleachers or at the beaches in July. It is closer to the truth to say: No beer, no...
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