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Home > Company Index > Food, Beverage & Tobacco > Beverages - Bottlers & Wholesale Distribution > Georgia Crown Distributing Company

Georgia Crown Distributing Company
 PROFILE
Aptly named Fate D. Leebern may have died for Georgia Crown Distributing, a beverage bottler and distributor. He founded Georgia Crown as Columbus Wine Company Distributor in 1938, the same year Georgia prohibition was repealed. After the first rail shipment of legal liquor was received, someone -- reportedly the Dixie Mafia -- murdered Leebern. Today the family-owned company distributes beer, wine, liquor, bottled water, juices, and soft drinks to Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. The bottler also distributes its own brand of bottled water, Melwood Springs. CEO Donald Leebern Jr. is the grandson of the company's founder. The Leebern family owns the business.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: July
2000 Sales (mil.): 710.00
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 1.4%
Employees: 1,600
Revenue per employee: $443,750.00

 KEY PEOPLE
• Donald M. Leebern
    CEO
• Orlene Bovaird
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
7 Crown Circle
Columbus, GA 31908
US
Phone: 706-568-4580
Fax: 706-561-1647
Online: Web Site

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