Liquor Group Wholesale, Inc.(fka LIQRQ)

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Oct 25th

McLane Beverage Distribution also has a license in Washington state

Source: Fredericksburg.com

By Bill Freehling



McLane Beverage Distribution Inc. also has obtained a license in Washington state, I discovered this weekend. I did a liquor license search for the entity of Texas-based McLane Co. for all of the states in which the trucking company has a grocery distribution center.

In addition to obtaining or applying for licenses to distribute alcohol in Virginia and Florida (which I reported last week), McLane Beverage Distribution Inc. has a license in Washington that it obtained this past November. I haven't yet searched any of the states in which McLane doesn't have a grocery distribution center, and can't guarantee I didn't miss one in which the company does have a center (the public liquor license search functions in all these states are at varying levels of user-friendliness).

McLane Co. general counsel Len Mewhinney told me the company was just obtaining these licenses so it would be poised to get into this business should an opportunity arise.