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Posts from the Wine Business Category

Formalization of Wine’s ‘Fifth Column’: Third-party Marketers

By Elizabeth Hansen - ShipCompliant Program Manager

Editor’s Note: The following post is part of our series on the Third Party Providers “A compliant and effective e-commerce sales platform [is] now in place and available. There is a Fifth Column of wine sales now…The evolution and momentum of the Fifth Column of wine sales leads us to believe the genie is finally [...]

May 14th, 2012

The First of May Brings the First of Direct Wine Shipping to the Garden State

By Sarah Werner - ShipCompliant Research Team

Spring brings more than flowers this year for supporters of direct shipping. After three and a half months of anticipation and preparation, the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control posted checklists, forms and applications on their site, making S 3172 a reality for the wine industry. Effective May 1, New Jersey is accepting applications [...]

May 1st, 2012

Licensees should have the opportunity to accept or reject each third party wine order

By Jeff Carroll - VP of Compliance, ShipCompliant

Editor’s Note: The following post is part of our series on the Third Party Providers In the quickly evolving world of third party wine marketing, it’s important that marketers and licensed sellers work together in such a way that puts the licensed seller in full control of all aspects of each transaction. One of the [...]

April 19th, 2012

Third Party Providers are Here…To Stay

By Jeff Carroll - VP of Compliance, ShipCompliant

Last month I had the privilege of addressing a group of control state regulators, industry attorneys and key industry executives that gathered just outside Washington, DC for the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association’s (NABCA) Annual Legal Symposium. The topic of my panel was one that we have put significant focus on here at ShipCompliant and [...]

April 1st, 2012

New Jersey Poised to Open Up For Direct Shipping

By Sarah Werner - ShipCompliant Research Team

Late Monday night, in the final action of a marathon legislative session that closed out the year, the New Jersey Assembly passed S3172, a bill that, among other things, opens up the state for direct-to-consumer shipments. If signed by Governor Chris Christie as expected, it will allow wineries producing up to 250,000 gallons of wine [...]

January 11th, 2012