Giving evidence that business is booming, a long-time Budweiser distribution company in El Paso is making plans to build a new $31.million distribution center.
L&F Distributors want to build what will be a 225,000-square-foot facility on the east side of the city near the intersection of Interstate 10 and Loop 375.
That facility will replace the company’s current center, located at 6949 Market Avenue, which measures around 75,000 square feet.
L&F Distributors, which has other facility locations in Roswell, New Mexico, as well as the Texas cities of Alice, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, and Laredo, was launched in 1978 with a single location in McAllen.
The company today serves some 35 counties in both southern New Mexico and Texas.
First introduced in 1876 in St. Louis, Missouri, Budweiser is the product of the Anheuser-Busch company, which last year realized revenue in excess of $59 billion.
According to the data firm Neilsen IQ, Budweiser remains on the top ten nationally in beer sales, somewhat behind Bud Lite, another Anheuser-Busch brand.
Bud Lite is also distributed by L&F Distributors, as well as the increasingly popular White Claw Hard Seltzer, produced by the Mark Anthony Group.
By Garry Boulard
