Doubling the DWC to 12 million, WOW!!!

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by Scav

It is no different then say the Beer Industry. Right now in one of my final classes, we have to do a strategic audit on a company, the teacher picked the beer industry. The industry as a whole has 4 major players, and then a bunch of fringe players. It is exactly what is going on here. You have 4 major owners, some people that are trying to get to that level, and then you have the fringe players, that take what they can get.

I understand where you're going with this, and it was brought up prior, but the top four major players in the beer market don't have unlimited pockets, or charge ridiculously low prices, to eliminte the others. They still, by large, keep the market competitive.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

I understand where you're going with this, and it was brought up prior, but the top four major players in the beer market don't have unlimited pockets, or charge ridiculously low prices, to eliminte the others. They still, by large, keep the market competitive.

They constantly buy up smaller breweries, or they essentially force them into a distributation agreement (such as a company like RedHook, which is who I am doing the audit on)

It has been either merge upon merge or just getting consolidated into one of the largers.

I don't have their 10k's handy, and with it being a highly regulated industry, their piss away alot of money on regulators and **** like that, but they aint struggling, their pockets/power, is pretty large

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by Scav

They constantly buy up smaller breweries, or they essentially force them into a distributation agreement (such as a company like RedHook, which is who I am doing the audit on)

It has been either merge upon merge or just getting consolidated into one of the largers.

I don't have their 10k's handy, and with it being a highly regulated industry, their piss away alot of money on regulators and **** like that, but they aint struggling, their pockets/power, is pretty large

But that still isn't comparable to Godolphin and racing. Miller and Bud battle for exclusivity at sporting events. You think if Sheik Mo wanted his beer ( I know..bad analogy) at the UC, he wouldn't just quadruple the highest offer from Miller or Bud and we'll all be drinking Mo's Brew? No one else is capable of that in the beer industry, let alone the horse biz. I don't think you have an appreciation for exactly how much money he does have.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by GBBob

But that still isn't comparable to Godolphin and racing. Miller and Bud battle for exclusivity at sporting events. You think if Sheik Mo wanted his beer ( I know..bad analogy) at the UC, he wouldn't just quadruple the highest offer from Miller or Bud and we'll all be drinking Mo's Brew? No one else is capable of that in the beer industry, let alone the horse biz. I don't think you have an appreciation for exactly how much money he does have.

I probably don't, never really thought on that scale, but some are stating that he is destroying the industry, when in fact, it is the industry that is destroying itself and a few select helping move forward with the destruction, he is the head kingpin in the destruction, but he is doing more for horse racing then the others are, at least from what I can tell. It is very lopsided as far as where the money comes from.

Look, it is a bad cycle, any time you have uneven power, it leads to conversations like this, both hatred and love, opinions from both sides, with essentially no right or wrong, no solution or plan

Sooner or later, it will even out, 10 years ago, he wasn't in the American industry, who is to say that in 10 years he will be around....

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by Scav

I probably don't, never really thought on that scale, but some are stating that he is destroying the industry, when in fact, it is the industry that is destroying itself and a few select helping move forward with the destruction, he is the head kingpin in the destruction, but he is doing more for horse racing then the others are, at least from what I can tell. It is very lopsided as far as where the money comes from.

Look, it is a bad cycle, any time you have uneven power, it leads to conversations like this, both hatred and love, opinions from both sides, with essentially no right or wrong, no solution or plan

Sooner or later, it will even out, 10 years ago, he wasn't in the American industry, who is to say that in 10 years he will be around....

That is so true...We can't control what Godolphin does, but we sure are doing a lousy job with the things we can control