date:Nov 02, 2012
ribution operations in the state. Busch has been allowed to distribute beer in Illinois since 1980 and had acquired 30 percent of City Beverage, which was majority-owned by Detroit-based Soave Enterprises.
But the liquor commission blocked the deal to preserve the state's three-tier system. Anheuser-Busch took the matter to court, noting that several Illinois microbreweries distribute their own beer and that keeping the company out of the distribution business discriminated against out-of-stat