{"id":6166,"date":"2012-04-23T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:22:50","slug":"beer-politics-city-beverage-of-bloomington-licenses-renewed-still-no-decision-on-wedco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/beer-politics-city-beverage-of-bloomington-licenses-renewed-still-no-decision-on-wedco\/","title":{"rendered":"City Beverage of Bloomington Licenses Renewed, Still No Decision On WEDCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/citybevbloomington.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8675\" title=\"citybevbloomington\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/citybevbloomington.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a>The email in our inbox set off alarm bells and whistles and caused me to do more than a few double-takes. An insider had given us a heads up that the Illinois Liquor Control Commission approved City Beverage of Bloomington&#8217;s distributor and importing distributor licenses for another year.<\/p>\n<p>After some digging, emailing and a little poking of the bear &#8211; the insider was right. City Beverage of Bloomington&#8217;s licenses were due to expire on March 31st, 2012 and the Illinois Liquor Control Commission did renew the distributor&#8217;s licenses for another year during its March 21st meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A distributor&#8217;s license renewal wouldn&#8217;t normally be a blip on our radar, but it is when it&#8217;s City Beverage.<\/p>\n<p>City Beverage (which has distributorships in Chicago, Markham, Arlington Heights and Bloomington) is partially owned by Wholesaler Equity Development Corporation or WEDCO. And WEDCO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev. Right now City Beverage, WEDCO and AB InBev are at the center of a months-long debate raging before the ILCC over whether or not WEDCO can retain its 30-percent stake in City Beverage in light of the changes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/save-the-craft\/\">Illinois&#8217; self-distribution laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared, initially, that the seemingly quiet renewal of City Beverage of Bloomington&#8217;s licenses signaled an even quieter decision by the ILCC to allow WEDCO to keep its stake in City Beverage.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the ILCC quickly squashed that in an email response informing us that City Beverage of Bloomington&#8217;s licenses were renewed so they could continue to distribute beer while the commission continues to hash out what to do about WEDCO. I asked, more pointedly, if the renewal was, &#8220;indicative of a decision already being reached re: WEDCO,&#8221; to which she responded, &#8220;absolutely not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said a decision on WEDCO was not expected this month.<\/p>\n<p>The next commission hearing is scheduled for May 9th in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[363,473,391,393],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beer Politics: City Beverage of Bloomington Licenses Renewed, Still No Decision On WEDCO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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