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Drinks, Inc.
 PROFILE
Beer by mail is Drinks' specialty. It is a holding company for online retailer Drinks.com (beer, wine, and spirits) and Hilltop Marketing (previously called Merchant Direct and Beer Across America), a beer of the month direct marketer with some 200,000 members. It contracts with Drinks America (which has warehouses in California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York). Todd Holmes and chairman Louis Amoroso started Beer Across America in 1992; it emerged from bankruptcy in 1999. The duo has added other mail-order clubs, including Cigar Affair, International Wine Cellars, and Coffee Quest. Venture capital firm Crescent Gate owns about 30% of the company.

 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
1999 Sales (mil.): 14.00
Employees: 60
Revenue per employee: $233,333.33

 KEY PEOPLE
• Louis Amoroso
    CEO

 CONTACT INFO
55 Albrecht Dr.
Lake Bluff, IL 60044
US
Phone: 847-604-8008
Fax: 847-604-8599

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