Last winter, Mr. Talbot's distributorship of vintage movies, New Yorker Films, closed its doors after 44 years.
Within hours, Robert had decided on his next business: a distributorship for clunky, black Doc Martens shoes and boots, around since 1945 and newly popularized by grunge fashion.
He is also the majority owner of the only Toyota distributorship for Afghanistan, thanks in part to Mr. Kemp, who has served on Toyota's United States diversity advisory board and introduced Mr. Karzai to the automaker's executives.
At the trial, lawyers for the Maris family argued that Anheuser-Busch wanted the distributorship so the company could give it to friends of its chairman, August Busch III.
Mr. Delgado confirmed that after Jim Hensley died, Anheuser-Busch approached Mrs. McCain about buying the distributorship, because the brewer prefers hands-on owners.
Profit excluding restructuring costs and a gain on a sold distributorship was 95 cents a share.
In 1994, Hunt Country, a winery on Keuka Lake, established a distributorship called Wineship to bring Finger Lakes wines to New York City stores and restaurants but shut it down after a year.
He signed a contract for a sole distributorship, began studying golf-course architecture and went on a marketing binge.
"I resigned, I moved on, tried to correct it," said Mr. Dawson, who owns an auto parts distributorship.
The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Alachua County Circuit Court, accuses Anheuser-Busch of smearing the Maris's reputation by saying the family's beer distributorship had poor business practices.
