Momentum Building for 2025 ABL Annual Meeting in San Antonio

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Speakers & Industry Sessions Highlight Event for Beverage Alcohol Retailers

June 6, 2025 – BETHESDA, MD – Momentum is building for the 2025 ABL Annual Meeting, set to take place July 26–28, 2025 at the Kimpton Santo Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.  With more speakers announced and networking hospitality events featuring a wide range of industry products, beverage licensees from across the country are encouraged to make plans now to join ABL and their industry colleagues for the year’s most important event focused on independent alcohol retailers.

Industry-leading speakers and timely sessions will offer valuable insights into the key issues facing on- and off-premise alcohol retailers. Highlights include:

  • “Changes, Threats & Opportunities: The Evolving Beverage Alcohol Industry” featuring Mark Brown, Executive Chairman of Sazerac Company
  • “THC Beverages in Focus: Trends, Policy & Retail Impacts” featuring Diana Eberlein, Chair of the Coalition for Adult Beverage Alternatives
  • “Streaming Smarts: Navigating Live Sports and Entertainment in Your Business” featuring Jim Grandahl, head of National Accounts for DIRECTV Business
  • “Navigating Headwinds in a Shifting Economic Climate” featuring Andrew Heritage, Chief Economist for the Beer Institute
  • “Beverage Retailers Policy Outlook” featuring ABL Executive Director John Bodnovich

Additional speakers will be announced soon, adding more valuable content to the program for attendees.

In addition to ABL Annual Meeting events and hospitality, attendees are also invited to participate in the Texas Package Stores Association (TPSA) Trade Show and other hospitality events taking place as part of the 78th Annual TPSA Convention & Trade Show including the Cork Pull and AfterGlow Party.

Registration is open now through July 21, 2025.

Attendees can book their accommodations at the Kimpton Santo Hotel at a nightly rate of $239 + applicable taxes and fees. ABL’s room block is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. The room block is scheduled to close on June 25, 2025.

For the latest updates and information on the 2025 ABL Annual Meeting, please visit www.ablusa.org.

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