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Like any good chairman of a multimillion-dollar beverage company, Don Vultaggio knows that distribution is a key to success. But unlike most high-flying executives, Vultaggio, head of privately owned Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons, maker of the popular Arizona brand of iced tea, will spend a Friday night on a forklift. On a recent evening, Vultaggio, in jeans and an untucked T shirt, zipped around a steamy, 30,000-sq.-ft. Tampa, Fla., warehouse on a hi-low, moving pallets to fit 3 million cans, bottles and gallon jugs of Arizona into the space. Vultaggio had flown from his Lake...
...Volkswagen bus (he proudly recalls being a victim of armed robbers and once threw a brick at a robber's getaway car), wind up building a New Age--drink business, selling bottles adorned with cherry blossoms? From death stares to drapes in three easy steps. Vultaggio and partner John Ferolito established a semisuccessful beer distributorship before trying to produce their own brands. Their first choices were a little less refined than mandarin-orange-flavored green tea sweetened with honey. They started Midnight Dragon malt liquor in the mid-1980s and, to promote it, printed thousands of posters featuring a scantily...
...discussed a distribution deal with Coke that would put Arizona in Coke's vending machines. Without the vast distribution networks of Coke and Pepsi, Arizona still lags behind Nestea and Lipton in vending machines and fast-food fountains. Vultaggio says Coke has talked to him about buying out Ferolito's share of Arizona, with Vultaggio still retaining full control. "That's the only way I would do it," Vultaggio says...
...Bureau had pledged to do something about the drug problem in Riverside," Joe Ferolito, a former staff member said recently, discussing Kevin Harris' death. "When a couple of us complained that a cosmetics program would in no way help, that a kid had died, the administrators just shrugged...
During Cravens' speech Paul Ferolito, a longtime Cambridge resident, interrupted to say, "You people are all a bunch of shirkers. My son was over in Vietnam and he was proud to be there...
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