This meeting is for all US state guild members actively involved in legislation into the same room to recap recent wins and work on next steps in changing laws for distillers.
State guild mangers will receive two complimentary tickets to the ADI conference. All state guild members are invited, RSVP (email eriko@distilling) is required.
The first portion of the meeting will be a presentation and discussion on key public policy topics at the state level including DTC, RTD’s (tax and outlet access), potential tax threats and a discussion on the landscape for EPR and Bottle Bills. We are also working on several economic data projects that have implications for these and other policies and can walk the group through these (Advancing Advocacy through Data). The last portion of the meeting would be a roundtable/panel discussion on a topic or topics that are of importance to Guild operations such as driving tourism and additional revenue streams. We anticipate the full meeting running from 3 PM-5:45 CT. This will give time for participants to get to the MO Guild Tasting.
- Policy Updates on Key Initiatives
- DtC
- RTD’s
- 2023 Tax Threats
- EPR / Bottle Bills
- Advancing Advocacy Through Data
- Tourism/Econ Project
- RTD Work
- Importance of Grassroots in Advocacy (and how to leverage!)
- Ship My Spirits
- Spirits United
- Roundtable/Panel on Building Revenue for Guilds (30 minutes)
- Tourism
- Partnerships that Drive Revenue or Savings
- Closing Remarks
Attendees
ADI
- Erik Owens
DISCUS
- Chris Swonger
- Christine LoCascio
- Kristi Brown
- DISCUS MO Lobbyist (TBD)
- Emily Smith (invited)
- Joey Ford , Responsibility.Org
- Joe Donadoni
- Representatives from our Communications/Spirits United Teams TBD
