Tennessee Code Title 57. Intoxicating Liquors § 57-5-502

(1) “Agreement” means any agreement between a wholesaler and a supplier, oral or written, whereby a wholesaler is granted the right to purchase and sell a brand or brands of beer with an alcoholic content of five percent (5%) by weight or less sold by a supplier;

(2) “Ancillary business” means:

(3) “Designated member” means:

(4) “Good faith” means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing in the trade, as defined in and interpreted under § 47-2-103(1)(b);

(5) “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, syndicate, or any other combination of individuals;

(6) “Reasonable standards and qualifications” means those criteria established and consistently applied by a supplier to wholesalers in Tennessee and adjoining states who:

(7) “Retaliatory action” includes, but is not limited to, the refusal to continue an agreement or a material reduction in the quality of service or quantity of products available to a wholesaler under an agreement, which refusal or reduction is not made in good faith;

(8) “Substantial stockholder” or “substantial partner” means a stockholder of or partner in the wholesaler who owns an interest of ten percent (10%) or more of the partnership or of the capital stock of a corporate wholesaler;

(9) “Supplier” means a manufacturer or importer of beer;

(10) “Transfer of wholesaler's business” or “transfer of the wholesaler's business” means the voluntary sale, assignment or other transfer of all or control of the business, or all or substantially all of the assets of the wholesaler, or all or control of the capital stock of the wholesaler, including without limitation the sale or other transfer of capital stock or assets by merger, consolidation or dissolution, or of the capital stock of the parent corporation, or of the capital stock or beneficial ownership of any other entity owning or controlling the wholesaler; and

(11) “Wholesaler” means a person or entity that sells beer to retailers, but does not include any manufacturer authorized to sell directly to retailers pursuant to § 57-5-101.