Advanced Feeback...going under?

A large client for AF was the craft beer company than just got bought from its parent company, for 8% of what it sold for 3 years ago....yes, that's a 92% writedown by Constellation Brands for a large craft brewer! Anyway, AF did a lot of shops for the craft brewer....Gigspot was the source for all AF jobs....now everything AF is pulled from Gigspot....is AF going under?

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In my area, I have gotten emails for a few years to shop another ongoing client. I have done the shop a few times albeit not lately. The long-term relationship with this client, while it may be local, hopefully bodes well. I had never heard of this craft brewery client. I don't use Gigspot, but I hope this means not all their shops are posted there. But I could see it alarming if all the AF shops on Gigspot were suddenly gone.

The brewery only has a around 5 locations in San Diego, Long Beach, Anaheim and Chicago so I don't think they would have been a big client but I don't do many shops for AF so I don't know how big a MS co they are.

Well, sort of....This craft brewery company has locations in California, Chicago, and Virginia and is supported by a two huge brerweries, one in San Diego, and one in Virginia. They are the pre-eminent larger scale Craft Brewery in the US. They have over 500 employees, and the beer is distributed nationwide. They sold to Constellation Brands for 1 Billion dollars in 2015 (Yes, that's 1 Billion, with a "B"

and Constellation's plan was to grow the business....but, well, best laid plans and all that....The rumor mill says that the group out of Chicago that bought them (with outside capital, of course) got the whole operation for about 80 million, but no price has been disclosed. Anyway, AF did all their shops and there were a lot of them....but AF did a lot of other shops, too....now..."crickets"...hmmmm.,,,,,

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/2019 07:27PM by salisburync.

To suggest that any MSC is going out of business simply because of the loss of one client is reactionary at best. Advanced Feedback currently shows 129 open shops nationwide, including half a dozen or so for the home brew client. That's typical for them this time of the month. It is impressive even as a good number of MSCs have closed shopping for December.

You might want to consider dumping Gigspot and using Shopmetrics directly.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2019 05:54AM by Rousseau.

I did 4 shops for them in OCT not the craft beer client. I also see 129 national shops on shopmetrics for them. I am shocked with all the problems of Gigspot anyone still uses them. I like the shopmetrics sites and the last half year have been the majority of my shops. I doubt Advanced Feedback is going anywhere. Shops change MSCs all the time and many stop either temp or permanently.

Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.

They'll be fine. They have other large enough clients to keep them in business.

Earlier this year, I deleted my GigSpot and started logging on directly to the MSCs, but I miss GigSpot a little bit because it allowed me to search for a bunch of shops at the same time. Now I have to log in to each individual company and check their job board.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/23/2019 02:46AM by chiffon cupcakes.

I know nothing of the msc or the craft brewery shops but about two weeks ago the business section of my local Sunday edition had a two full page article about the history and sale of that brewery.. At least it sounds like the same story to me.

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