Winery Staffing, Solved: Why Larger Wine and Beverage Businesses Are Turning to Premier by Protea If you’re running a larger winery or beverage business, you already know the staffing cycle by heart. Someone leaves. You scramble to find a temp to cover the gap. The temp doesn’t know your systems, so you spend weeks training…
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If you run a winery, you already know that accounting here isn’t like accounting anywhere else. Between harvest-cycle inventory, bulk-to-bottle cost tracking, DTC and wholesale channel reporting, and TTB compliance, winery accounting demands a level of industry fluency that generic bookkeeping software and generalist accountants weren’t built for. And yet, for a huge number of…
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A guest feature from Ruby Pro Software. Prepared for Protea Financial. The short version When was the last time you looked at your real margin with each of your distributors? Not your list price — your actual margin, after the depletion allowances (DAs), billbacks, and discounts in each market. For most winery owners, the honest…
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How Protea helps turn cash flow questions into better business decisions “Sales are up, so why is there no cash in the bank?” When sales are growing, a business owner’s expectation is fairly simple: our cash flow pressure should go away. But winery owners know it often does not work that cleanly. The tasting room…
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How Protea helps connect profitability, cash flow, and better business decisions “The P&L says we made money. So why doesn’t the bank account show it?” It is one of the most common financial questions winery owners ask, and it is a fair one. The Profit and Loss statement may show positive net income, but the…
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How Protea helps translate margin questions into better business decisions “We charge premium prices, so why aren’t our margins higher?” This question can come up when a winery owner believes pricing should support stronger profitability. However, gross profit or overall profitability is still lower than expected. This is a reasonable question. Premium wineries charge Premium…
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