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.
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.
Key services performed by the Department of Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) will be paused if the government shuts down this week, TTB deputy administrator David Wulf said during the Beer Institute (BI) annual membership meeting this week.
Sheehan Family Companies has reached an agreement to acquire some of the assets of Everett, Massachusetts-based Night Shift Distributing (NSD), including the distribution rights to Night Shift Brewing’s portfolio in Massachusetts and Connecticut, beginning October 18.
With the summer selling season officially in the rearview mirror, beer category off-premise dollar sales ended with a -7.6% decline compared to the same period in 2020, but increased +9.3% compared to summer 2019, according to market research firm NielsenIQ.
Ball Corp., the leading U.S. manufacturer of metal packaging for beverages, will build a $290 million aluminum beverage packaging plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada, with plans to begin production in late 2022, the company announced Thursday.
After a quarter-century as the nation’s first and only Jewish craft beer brand, Shmaltz Brewing will sunset its operations following a farewell tour this fall. “We’ve accomplished so much more than I ever imagined with He’brew and Shmaltz Brewing that why not be really proud and excited to put a bow on it on Year 25?” founder Jeremy Cowan told Brewbound.
Elevated off-premise sales, particularly for gift-giving, should continue for the remainder of the year as the holiday season approaches despite uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 delta variant, according to beverage alcohol industry panelists gathered by e-commerce, on-demand alcohol delivery platform Drizly.
Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers and Atlantic Importing and Distributing of Rhode Island will face off in a courtroom as the lawsuit between the two companies will go to trial, a Rhode Island Superior Court judge ruled today. In the interim, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based craft brewery must resume selling its products to Atlantic RI for distribution within the Ocean State, according to an order from Justice Brian P. Stern.
The contentious legal battle between sparkling hard tea and canned cocktail maker Loverboy and Night Shift Distributing over the FMB maker’s attempt to terminate the Massachusetts-headquartered wholesaler without paying fair market value for its brand rights has ended with an amicable resolution.
Updates to the EIDL program include an increase of the loan cap from $500,000 to $2 million, the addition of a two-year repayment deferral period, an expansion of eligible uses for funds, and the creation of a 30-day exclusivity window to approve and disburse loans smaller than $500,000 to focus on the smallest businesses, according to a Brewers Association (BA) blog post.
