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• Bourbon and American whiskey sales topped $3 billion last year

  08-02-2017 15:22 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  The boom in American whiskey is continuing.Revenue from sales of bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey reached $3.1 billion last year, up nearly 8 percent from 2015, according to the Distilled Spirits Council. The council, a trade group based in Washington, D.C., released those figures in a news release as part of an economic update on the industry.It said that suppliers sold 21.8 million cases of American whiskey last year, meaning volumes are up about 7 percent.The upward progress in&hell
  
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• Kroger acquires Murray’s Cheese brand

  08-02-2017 15:21 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Kroger Co. acquired the New York-based specialty cheese brand Murray’s Cheese that CEO Rodney McMullen regularly touts in talking about Kroger’s specialty offerings.Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR), the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, gains Murray’s Cheese’s flagship location on Bleecker Street in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village as part of the deal. That marks Kroger’s first retail location in New York City, although it will retain
  
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• Lyft partners with medical transportation provider in 276 cities

  08-02-2017 15:19 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Atlanta-based non-emergency medical transportation provider Logisticare has partnered with Lyft Inc. to expand its services in 276 cities.Although medical transportation providers have experimented with pilot programs using rideshare companies, this partnership is the largest ever of its kind, according to Logisticare.LogistiCare works with state Medicaid agencies and managed care agencies that contract with Medicaid to provide recipients without transportation with a ride to their doctor's appo
  
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• What You Get for ... $700,000

  08-02-2017 15:01
  A midcentury A-frame in Los Angeles, a 1930 bungalow in Nashville and a colonial in Brandon, Vt.
  
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• $700,000 Homes in California, Tennessee and Vermont

  08-02-2017 15:01
  A midcentury A-frame in Los Angeles, a 1930 bungalow in Nashville and a colonial in Brandon, Vt.
  
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