Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:813

  • Agreement: means any agreement between a wholesaler and a supplier, whether oral or written, whereby a wholesaler is granted the right to purchase and sell a brand or brands of beer sold by a supplier. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
  • Similarly situated wholesalers: means wholesalers of a supplier that are of a generally comparable size, and operate in markets with similar demographic characteristics, including population size, density, distribution, and vital statistics, as well as reasonably similar economic and geographic conditions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
  • Successor: means a person who replaces a supplier, importer, broker, or wholesaler with regard to the right to manufacture, sell, distribute, broker, or import a brand or brands of beer or light wine. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802

            A successor shall become obligated to all the terms and conditions of the agreement in effect on the date of succession. This Section shall be applicable regardless of the character or form of the succession. A successor has the right to contractually require its wholesalers to comply with standards of performance, if standards are uniformly established and enforced for all of the successor’s similarly situated wholesalers and conform to the provisions of this Chapter.

            Acts 2016, No. 386, §1.