Following the acquisition of Bell’s Brewery earlier this week, Lion Little World Beverages said managing director Matt Tapper will exit the company next year after a 25-year career, and New Belgium CEO Steve Fechheimer will lead the company’s U.S. craft brewery platform.

Kirin-owned Lion Little World Beverages has struck a deal to acquire Bell’s Brewery, the second largest craft brewery in Michigan and the seventh largest Brewers Association-defined craft brewery by volume in 2020.

A pair of beverage alcohol e-commerce platforms are merging. E-commerce luxury spirits platform ReserveBar announced today that it will acquire Minibar Delivery, a marketplace that offers on-demand delivery of beer, wine and spirits.

About 45% of consumers plan to visit on-premise establishments for Halloween, according to a survey conducted by on-premise marketing research firm CGA from October 22-25.

U.S. brewing companies shipped an estimated 14.8 million barrels of product in September 2021, a 5.1% decline compared to September 2020’s more than 15.6 million barrels, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing unofficial estimates of domestic tax paid shipments from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).

Molson Coors Beverage Company CEO Gavin Hattersley opened today’s third quarter earnings call by reciting what he said are the seven “headlines” of the company’s last three months.

Fast-growing non-alcoholic craft beer maker Athletic Brewing Company has hired Andrew Katz to serve as the company’s first chief marketing officer.

In an op-ed she wrote in support of paid family leave for small businesses, Switchyard Brewing Company co-founder Kristin Cummings wrote that the company has strived to “offer better benefits and a better work-life balance” to its workforce. Voting has started for the Brewers Association’s (BA) board of directors election and ends November 17.

Boston Beer Company’s second quarter earnings call in July set the stage for a tumultuous third quarter that saw the company pull its financial guidance and anticipate write-off costs related to excess hard seltzer inventory, which was followed by a rush of investor lawsuits. Although the Q2 earnings report left analysts flummoxed and disappointed, the company’s third quarter earnings report came with less of a jolt but more of the residual sting of the slowdown in hard seltzer growth and lowered expectations.

Anheuser-Busch continues to restructure its commercial leadership team, announcing Wednesday the appointment of a new president of its AB ONE division of wholly owned distributors

Deschutes Brewery will close its tasting room in Roanoke, Virginia, at the end of the year, Michael LaLonde, president and CEO of the Bend, Oregon-headquartered craft brewery, announced today. LaLonde wrote that Deschutes “made the tough decision not to renew our lease” on the property, which opened in August 2017.

The Reyes Beer Division will acquire “substantially all the assets” of Powers Distributing in Lake Orion, Michigan, the company announced today. The Powers deal will add about 5.7 million cases to Reyes’ business.

The Voodoo Ranger franchise now accounts for 65% of New Belgium’s business. CEO Steve Fechheimer again highlighted the shift in the Fort Collins, Colorado-headquartered craft brewery’s priorities during the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) annual meeting last week.

Doubling down in 2022 was the theme of yesterday’s Heineken USA (HUSA) national sales meeting. HUSA’s leadership team, including CEO Maggie Timoney, stressed the message as their big ask of their wholesaler partners next year. Timoney shared that the company has posted consistent share growth over eight months. “Heineken is back. Dos Equis is growing…. Read more »