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(11-19-2019, 02:15 AM)Blake Wrote: "Homebrewing has grown at an explosive pace, but there are still many beer lovers who haven’t taken the jump because of the barriers to entry, like complexity, and these are the consumers we think will be attracted to LG HomeBrew," Dan Song, president of LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solutions, said in a press release.

The second tier is distribution. Producers will often provide exclusive rights to a certain company to distribute its product to different retailers, and the post-Prohibition landscape usually makes distributors powerful entities within each individual state. This reduces competition and can raise prices since fewer distributors mean less incentive to reduce prices.