How Many Overdue Bills Has RNDC Left Unpaid in Its Collapse?

In mid-April, a notice was posted on the door at 1621 Montgomery St. in San Francisco. The tenant of the ground-floor commercial unit near Fisherman’s Wharf owed nearly $57,000 on the lease, the bulletin claimed. Behind the plate-glass windows sat a vacant office space with taupe floors and stark white walls interrupted only by maroon block lettering that matched the logo on the door. “RNDC,” it…

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Memo: RNDC to Shed Five More Markets as Firesale Continues

Following a chaotic week of deal announcements for most of Republic National Distributing Company’s (RNDC) collapsing empire, the wholesaler has made arrangements with two rivals for five of its remaining markets, VinePair has learned. According to an internal memo sent Tuesday morning by RNDC chief executive Marc Sachs, the unraveling firm has received a letter of intent from BreakThru Beverage…

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RNDC to Sell Off Oregon and Washington Markets to Columbia Distributing, With More Moves to Come

After Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) withdrew from California in 2025 and sold off twelve of its markets to Reyes Beverage Group (RBG) earlier this year, the shakeout is set to continue. RNDC — once the second-largest wine and spirits distributor in the U.S. — plans to hand over the majority of its operations to multiple competitors, including Martignetti Companies and Columbia…

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MORE THAN ONE YEAR LATER: BAN ON CALIFORNIA WINES HURTING BRITISH COLUMBIANS March 10, 2026 represented a full year the ban on the importation of California wines has been in place In British Columbia the result of the province’s response to US tariffs on BC forest, aluminum, and other exports. The tariff response is being felt ... Read more

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Distributors - Unifying Parsers, Printers & Grammars

First post here. I’d like to show my distributors library. This library builds on Profunctors and optics from the lens library, particularly Prisms. Distributors generalize the story about parsing being the prototype example of Functors with the Applicative, Alternative and Monad interfaces, to a story about grammar being the prototype example of Profunctors with Monoidal,…

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