Jessica Infante joined Brewbound in 2019 after nearly a decade in a variety of marketing roles in the craft beer industry. Prior to that, she was a daily newspaper reporter at the Jersey Shore. Jess holds a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a master’s degree in integrated marketing communication from Emerson College. She is a certified Cicerone and lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
BrewDog USA, the Columbus, Ohio-headquartered offshoot of the Scottish craft beer maker, has added three new executives to its sales and marketing ranks, the company announced Monday. The company has tapped Marc Venegoni as vice president of U.S. sales, Greg Salzenstein as western U.S. sales director, and Erika Wojno as U.S. director of marketing.
Three quarters into 2021, craft beer dollar sales in off-premise retailers have declined -7.1% year-to-date through October 2 and that negative trend is mostly accelerating, according to a report from Bump Williams Consulting (BWC). Craft beer dollar sales declined -12.7% in Q2 and improved slightly to -12.5% in Q3, but there have been “no major improvements since cycling COVID,” BWC wrote
All of Firestone Walker’s brand platforms have new news in 2022, including new IPAs, more cans, fruited beers and even a hard seltzer.
Firestone Walker Brewing Company is sailing into 2022 “with the wind at our back,” co-founder David Walker said in an intro video to the company’s annual business plan presentation, streamed virtually to distributor and retailer partners late last month. Current projections place the Paso Robles, California-headquartered craft brewery finishing 2021 up about +20%, Walker said, despite the continued challenges of the pandemic.
The parent company of Oyster City Brewing Company has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the assets of Catawba Valley Brewing Company. Made by the Water, a portfolio company of family office Wiregrass Equity Partners, which owns Oyster City, will acquire the assets of Catawba Valley, including Catawba Brewing in North Carolina, Palmetto Brewing in South Carolina, the Twisp Southern Hard Seltzer brand that launched in 2019.
New Glarus Brewing co-founder and president Deb Carey has filed a lawsuit against the law firm that sued her in August on behalf of three minority investors, as well as several unnamed media outlets that ran a press release provided by the firm.
After two years of elevated focus on social and racial justice issues, ownership within the craft beer industry remains nearly monolithically white, according to a new demographic benchmarking report from the Brewers Association (BA). Brewery owners are 93.5% white, and 92.2% of breweries have entirely white ownership, according to the survey of 500 randomly selected breweries.
Constellation Brands’ beer business increased both shipments (+11.7%) and depletions (+7.3%) during the second quarter of its 2022 fiscal year, the company reported Wednesday.
New National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) chairman Peter Heimark laid out his vision for what beer (and beverage) wholesalers will be facing over the next year during his remarks at the NBWA’s annual conference Tuesday.
Beer volumes will be flat in 2022 and for the next several years, due to a drastic slowdown in the previously meteoric growth of hard seltzer, distributors told financial services firm Jefferies in a recent survey.
Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) is exploring selling some of its German beer brands, valued at $1.2 billion, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing “people familiar with the matter.”
Beer makers aren’t the only ones rebranding to embrace beverages. The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) unveiled a new logo and tagline today: “America’s beer and beverage distributors.”
The Brewers Association issued a second round of comments to the Department of Treasury laying out the competitive challenges facing craft brewers, focusing on wholesaler consolidation, market access issues and restrictive state laws.
Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers must continue to sell its products to Atlantic Importing and Distributing of Rhode Island as the lawsuit between the two moves to trial, a Rhode Island Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.
