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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-03T13:00:43.000Z",
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  "textContent": "In January, VinePair broke the news of Reyes Beverage Group (RBG) buying a portion of Republic National Distributing Company’s (RNDC) national operation. Since then, a spate of mergers and acquisitions in the alcohol industry’s middle tier have made for a newsworthy first few months of 2026. Then, RBG expanded its acquisition with the purchase of five more RNDC markets earlier this month. In the past few weeks, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (SGWS) began scooping up Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) distributorships Clare Rose and Eagle Rock.\n\nThe article The VinePair Podcast: The Middle Tier Is Merging and Morphing appeared first on VinePair.",
  "title": "The VinePair Podcast: The Middle Tier Is Merging and Morphing"
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