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Top 25 Craft beverage distributors based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 2,065 craft beverage distributors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 72,374 professional contacts across them, including 23,565 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers craft beverage distributors headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest craft beverage distributors based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,377 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a top wine, spirits and CBD distributor in the nation, RNDC's national reach helps suppliers by building strategic relationships with on- and off-premise customers to elevate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,868 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Breakthru Beverage Group is one of the leading beverage wholesalers in the United States and the largest broker in Canada, representing a portfolio of premier spirits, wine, beer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,962 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Johnson Brothers is a third-generation, family-owned wine, beer, and spirits distributor founded in 1953 by Lynn Johnson in Saint Paul, Minnesota.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,536 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The company began in 1909 in Dallas, Texas, where Louis Glazer opened the Jumbo Bottling Company, which distributed a line of flavored soda waters from the back of horse-drawn…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,299 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Columbia Distributing is one of the nation’s finest beer, cider, wine, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverage distributors since 1935.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 907 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Winebow, our vision is to inspire a passion for fine wine and spirits nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 817 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Liberty Coca-Cola, we just don’t want to sell you beverages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 779 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by Jack Holloway in 1936 in Orlando, Florida, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits is America's largest family-owned wine and spirits retailer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 760 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Heidelberg Distributing Company began in 1938, with founder Albert W.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 758 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Empire is a wholesale beverage distributor home to over 1,600 teammates across four states: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Colorado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 751 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Allied Beverage Group, LLC (“Allied”), as it is known today, is a family owned company created by the historical mergers of The Baxter Group, Inc, F&A Distributing Company, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 723 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Andrews Distributing is proudly family owned and operated, as the number one beer and spirits distribution company in Texas, as well as one of the nation’s largest beer and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 688 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crescent Crown sells and delivers more than 30 million cases annually throughout its distribution territories in Arizona and Louisiana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 566 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Silver Eagle Distributors Houston, LLC, a Redwood Beverages Company, is one of the largest independent beverage distributors in the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 558 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by Greg Koch and Steve Wagner, we've come a long way since opening in San Diego County in 1996.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 540 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1955, Hensley Beverage Company is one of the largest privately held companies in Arizona.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 512 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Are you a traveler, not afraid to try new things, curious of the unknown & intrigued by life & what you’ve yet to discover?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 487 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fedway is New Jersey's leading wine and spirits distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 465 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headquartered in Marion, Illinois, Pepsi MidAmerica (PMA) is a premier beverage and food distributor proudly serving communities across Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 444 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Superior Beverage Group is a leading distributor of beer, wine and various non-alcoholic beverages in Central and Northeastern Ohio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 405 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “B&B is a wholesale beverage distributor located in Rock Hill, South Carolina.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 388 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast took flight as a single bottling operation out of Laconia, NH, in 1977.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 384 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Great Lakes Wine & Spirits is Michigan’s Largest Alcoholic Beverage Wholesaler, servicing all 83 Michigan counties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 368 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 352 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Glazer’s Beer and Beverage, LLC we are privileged to be recognized as one of the most successful sales and marketing organizations in our industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: craft beverage distributors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names craft beverage distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of craft beverage distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name craft beverage distributors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Craft beverage distributors based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 2,065 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among craft beverage distributors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “craft beverage distributors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names craft beverage distributors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among craft beverage distributors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 23,565 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names craft beverage distributors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many craft beverage distributors are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 2,065 craft beverage distributors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Republic National Distributing Company, headquartered in Grand Prairie, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most craft beverage distributors?
New York leads with 54 headquartered companies, followed by Portland (34) and Chicago (31).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 23,565 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,065 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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