Pros
Beautiful portfolio of wines and spirits. Excellent product and industry education program. Passionate co-workers. If you have a good manager they will cultivate your abilities and assist you in reaching your goals. The manager really dictates the environment as a good manager and leader takes the time to put together a strong team of quality people. Enjoyable sales competition between colleagues, on the whole not overly cutthroat. Nice incentives an perks.
Cons
Legalities of industry create un-even playing field between companies, as well as between individual divisions within the company. Expected to sign agreements that you will not break SLA rules, yet upper management regularly expect it of employees. Breaking rules (not signing an agreement that you understand them and will not break them) seems to be standard in the industry, but could change if it started from the top down, which I do not believe will ever happen here. If you have a poor manager you easily could be used as a scapegoat. Compensation used to be more stable until a merger with Martin Scott and revamp of hr policies. I was about to gain (4 or 5 weeks from it) an additional week of vacation due to coming up on anniversary date and instead no longer qualified. Company hires dead weight managers (nepotism?) and hangs on to them refusing to see their negative impact on once vibrant and successfully selling divisions.