Vintage Wine Distributor

RL Lipton Distributing Company located in Youngstown, serves clients in Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Ashtabula counties in Ohio. It offers a selection of products from Anheuser-Busch Companies and Hansen Beverage Company. It distributes products from the Budweiser, Budweiser Select, Bud Light and Bud Light Lime brands. RL Lipton Distributing Company also provides products from the Bud Light Golden Wheat, Bud Ice, Busch and Bass brands.

Lebanese immigrant Albert George, along with other family members, bought some second-hand cone-baking machines and started the George & Thomas Cone Company in 1918. That company is still owned and operated by the George family, together with the employees, and is now known as Joy Cone Company. It is one of the largest ice cream cone companies in the world, baking over 1.5 billion cones per year. The company owns and operates its own fleet of trucks that distribute cones throughout Canada and the United States. Joy Cone Company manufactures cones from two facilities in the U.S., one in Pennsylvania and one in Arizona. The plant in Hermitage, Pa., offers tours for up to 15 persons from August through November. Joy Cone Company maintains corporate headquarters in Hermitage.

The Superior Beverage Group specializes in the distribution of a range of beers and wines in central and northeastern Ohio. Founded in 1922, the family-owned company serves more than 8,500 retailers in over 25 counties in Ohio. It provides a selection of nonalcoholic beverages and domestic and imported beers. The Superior Beverage Group also supplies draught beer for church, club and charity fundraisers. In addition, it offers a range of party equipment, including vintage fire trucks and trailers. The company provides products from beverage manufacturers, such as Coors Brewing Company, Pabst Brewing Company, Anchor Brewing Company, Brown-Forman Corporation, and E.&J. Gallo Winery.