My understanding from the distributor that I spoke with, is that there will now be 9, yes he said 9, distributors for the now 9 territories across the country, and that 4 of them will be east coast based in the same state.

One thing I heard made good sense though.

This person mentioned that no distributor will be allowed to sell to internet vendors, or do internet sales themselves (something I've long suspected).

Of course BB, CC and the like will continue to sell via the net, but at least those companies aren't complete internet whores.