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JOHN KLICK ’92 Excelsior Marketing expert John Klick makes his career in the beer business, as a co-founder and president of Excelsior Brewing Company in Minnesota. But the product itself wasn’t what first attracted him to the industry. “It wasn’t the beer, believe it or not,” says Klick. Prior to Excelsior’s creation, he attended a conference for craft brewers as a marketing consultant to the beverage industry, where he met owners and marketers. “I was just enthused with how welcoming they were to a vendor like me. And the other thing was just watching them communicate amongst other breweries. They had a brotherhood or a sisterhood.” That continues with Excelsior, as Klick talks about the combination word “coopertition,” cooperation between competitors, which, in the area near his brewery, now includes his own brother. As a brewery, the company takes advantage of its inspirations: Lake Minnetonka and the city of Excelsior. On Excelsior’s website, a founding principle includes: “We believe warm sun, a cold beer and a live bite nurture your soul.” Klick explains, “Some people are into mountains, but we’re into the lake. So that was kind of our MO, and that’s where we find our livelihood.”
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