With offices in St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia and Cape Girardeau, Major Brands, Inc. is Missouri’s largest wholesale distributor of wines and spirits and remains locally-owned. Major Brands serves more than 10,000 customers, selling and distributing consumer beverage alcohol to grocery stores, restaurants, night clubs and other retail outlets throughout the state.  More than 4,300 items are in its product portfolio. On any given day, Major Brands’ trucks are delivering more than 35,000 bottles and 25,000 cases of products—an annual total of about 7.5 million bottles and 5.4 million cases. Major Brands employs about 600 throughout Missouri Major Brands sells eight of the top ten premium beverage alcohol brands and is proud to represent the industry’s leading suppliers: Diageo (www.diageo.com) Jim Beam Brands (www.fortunebrands.com; jimbeam.com) Bacardi USA (www.bacardi.com) Pernod Ricard USA (www.pernod-ricard.com) Sidney Frank (www.sidneyfrank.com) Canandaigua Wine Co (www.cwine.com) The Wine Group (www.corbettcanyon.com) Kendall Jackson Wine Estate (www.kj.com) Red Bull North America (www.redbull.com) Heineken USA (www.heineken.com) Labatt USA, a subsidiary of Interbrew (www.labatt.com) New Belgium Brewing (www.newbelgium.com) Schlafly Beer (www.schlafly.com) In 2004, Major Brands will complete the final phase of an $8 million renovation of its St. Louis office and production facility.  It recently completed significant enhancements to its Kansas City site.