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Trinchero Family Estates fined $44,575 in accidental death of cellar worker

On August 31, 2016, cellar worker Jose Alberto Avino died when a stack of barrel racks he was unloading with a for from a container at the Joel Gott winery (owner by Sutter Home Winery, lnc. dba: Trinchero Family Estates) located at 2055 Hoffman Lane   Cal/OSHA has finished their investigation of that deadly accident […]

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Google’s in hot water over lousy ad placements. This graphic shows how broken the process is.

Source: Wall Street Journal

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$1.3 trillion at risk as Hispanic spending and consumer confidence drop on immigration fears

According to excerpts from RBC’s March 24 Market Analysis: The collective buying power of the Hispanic population totaled $1.3 trillion in 2015, and is projected to grow to $1.7 trillion by 2020. The increase since 2000 is 167%, twice the 76% growth in non-Hispanic buying power, according to Nielsen.   Hispanic-Americans surpass the U.S. national […]

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2016 sets record for small craft brewers: retail dollars up 10% to $23.5 bil, 21.9% share of all beer $ sales

Source (and full infographics): Brewer’s Association

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Big business, new orders mark record-setting ProWein 2017

Nearly 60% of all trade visitors to ProWein 2017 concluded their business deals during the trade fair or plan to place orders after the show according to a show survey.   “Particularly pleasing was the high number of managers attending, ” said Hans Werner Reinhard, Managing Director of Messe Düsseldorf. “At least two-thirds of all […]

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Calif farmworker pay soars

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Federal judge denies Duarte request for reconsideration and appeal

A federal judge on Friday denied a request by Duarte Nursery and its President John Duarte to reconsider the court’s June 10, 2016 decision in favor of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.   Judge Kimberly J. Mueller of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California also denied an “interlocutory appeal” which […]

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National Geographic Confused Over Trump Rollback of Clean Water Rule.

With its publication of “The Potential Big Impact of Trump’s Clean Water Rollback,” National Geographic has joined a prominent list of publications that have confused the Clean Water Rule (which Trump is rolling back) from the Clean Water Act and its enforcement.   The Rule had already been suspended in 2015 by several federal courts — […]

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Wine and Spirits faring very well among consumer staples

  Source: RBC Capital Markets: ‘What Is Weighing on U.S. Consumer Staples Category Growth in 2017?”

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These are the tastes that people will want in this summer’s alcoholic beverages

Source: Nielsen

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