Since the end of Prohibition in 1933, the United States has relied on a three-tier system for alcohol distribution, and Connecticut is no exception. This model — separating producers, distributors and ...

A recent opinion piece in the Hartford Business Journal painted Connecticut’s three-tier alcohol system as a model of fairness — one that supposedly “works for everyone.” But that’s simply not the ...

The year got off to a bang when longtime partners Republic National Distributing Co. (RNDC) and Sazerac—leading players in the distributor and supplier tiers respectively—abruptly severed their ...

If there's one thing you need to know about the modern alcohol industry in America, it's that everything is governed by what's called the "three-tier system," which ensures that producers, ...