Our story
Ryan Trading Co. started with a simple observation: the drinks aisle rewards specificity. Drinkers do not want one company's whole worldview — they want a bourbon that tastes like Kentucky limestone, an Irish whiskey with attitude, a wine that belongs on a porch, a can that belongs in a cooler.
So we don't build one mega-brand. We assemble a portfolio of houses, each narrow enough to be believed, and back them with the capital and the operating spine of a much larger company.
What binds them is not a logo. It is a standard — of liquid, of packaging, of telling the truth on the label.
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We look for houses with a real place, a real maker and a real reason to exist — then resist the urge to sand that down.
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Sourcing, compliance, distributor relationships and data sit at the group level so each brand spends its energy on product and story.
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Different palettes, same discipline: liquid quality, packaging craft and honest labelling across every category we enter.
Management team
Founder / Chairman of the Board
Andy founded Ryan Trading Company to give great liquid a sales, marketing and distribution platform capable of scaling brands worldwide.
Co-founder, winemaker and master blender behind the award-winning Ammunition wine & whiskey brand, with 12+ years across winemaking, distilling, blending, distribution and brand innovation.
President
A senior beverage executive with more than 25 years inside Coca-Cola, Mark Anthony Group and Anheuser Busch — most recently as President of Mike's Beverage Company.
He built Mike's Hard Lemonade's Chicago headquarters and led the Canadian turnaround that preceded the publicly documented $350M USD sale to Anheuser Busch, then ran the post-acquisition integration to record revenue and profit.
Board Member
A decade of performance-marketing leadership behind more than $1 billion in tracked sales across digital products, physical goods and premium consumer brands.
Engagements with Moët & Chandon, Nike, NASA and QuickBooks, 8-figure SaaS exits, and the AI-powered intent-data platforms he now builds for consumer brands.
Board Member
40+ years in alcohol beverage, from bulk ethanol sales at National Distillers to Commercial Manager of ethanol for SOFECIA, a division of Dreyfus Commodities.
Partner in Joseph Ciatti Co, the world's largest bulk wine brokerage, and founder of a St. Louis ethanol packaging and distribution business sold in 2021 to Alto Ingredients.
The team, together
Between them, the group has made the wine, distilled and blended the whiskey, run multi-billion-dollar beverage divisions, brokered the raw ethanol that supplies the industry, sold a brand portfolio for $350 million, and moved more than a billion dollars of product through modern performance marketing. That mix is deliberate: production, distribution, corporate operating discipline and direct-to-consumer demand generation rarely sit at one table. Here they do — which is why nine independent houses can share one spine without any of them losing what makes them worth buying.
