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According to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), it accepted a $750,000 offer in compromise from Craft Beer Guild, A MASS. distributor, for trade practice violations. The TTB said, “this is the largest offer in compromise that TTB has recovered from a single industry member for trade practice violations.” The offer in compromise is related to the…
Plea negotiations are ongoing in the case of a former MillerCoors executive’s “scheme to defraud his employer through invoices for fake marketing events,” according to Law360. Former MillerCoors VP David Colletti pled guilty to recruiting vendors to help him scam MillerCoors. According to Law360, “in May, Colletti, who ran the company’s marketing, admitted to coaching vendors…to submit inflated or falsified invoices for…
Oasis Texas Brewing Company, an Austin, TX brewery, settled a trademark dispute with New Belgium Brewing, makers of the well known Fat Tire beer. According to the Houston Chronicle, the settlement allows Oasis to use the term “Slow Ride” on a beer within the state of Texas only, but may not call the same beer “Slow Ride” outside of Texas.…
