Justin Kendall provides daily coverage of the beer industry on Brewbound.com, conducts live-streamed interviews during Brewbound’s events and co-produces the Brewbound podcast. Kendall is a nearly 20-year career journalist who led alt-weekly newspapers in Kansas City, Missouri, and Des Moines, Iowa.
In reporting full-year 2020 earnings today, Heineken NV announced plans to cut its global workforce by 8,000 full-time employees as part of a reorganization plan first announced in October. Heineken, the world’s second largest beer manufacturer, also recorded several impairment charges totaling more than $1.1 billion (€963 million) to “tangible and intangible assets in operating profit.”
Stella Artois lager will no longer be imported from Europe into the U.S. by the end of the year, Anheuser-Busch InBev announced today. The world’s largest beer manufacturer will move production of its biggest import brand to its U.S. facilities as part of a $1 billion investment the company is making in its U.S. operations over the next two years.
CANarchy-owned Deep Ellum Brewing and Oskar Blues are now selling beer-to-go in Texas after a federal judge sided with the company in a legal dispute with the state’s regulatory agency.
Stone Distributing Company teased a move to a larger distribution center last week. The distribution arm of San Diego’s Stone Brewing Company today officially announced the move of its operations to the former Markstein Beverage Co. warehouse in San Marcos.
Did the pandemic really cause a bump in sales of so-called tried and true flagship brands in 2020? Not really, writes Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson in his latest members’ only column.
Anheuser-Busch InBev will invest $1 billion over the next two years in its U.S. facilities, with part of the investment directed at improving its hard seltzer production capabilities.
Anheuser-Busch is dipping into Bud Light’s past for the light beer brand’s 2021 Super Bowl ad.
WWE star Rey Mysterio is the new brand ambassador for Constellation Brands’ Victoria Beer brand. Mysterio, regarded in the pro wrestling world as one of the greatest luchadors of all time, kicked off the partnership Sunday night during the wrestling circuit’s first major event of the year, the Royal Rumble.
The first major beer drinking occasion of the year is less than a week away as nearly 100 million viewers are expected to tune into Super Bowl LV between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on February 7. How big is the Super Bowl for the industry? “It is still a big deal for Q1 volumes and is a big jump compared to other weeks in Q1,” National Beer Wholesalers Association chief economist Lester Jones said.
Stone Brewing Company has sold its distribution rights in Santa Clara County to Matagrano, which will begin distribution of the San Diego-based craft brewery’s portfolio beginning March 1.
A day after the resignations of two top Duvel Moortgat USA executives amid mounting accusations that management had turned a blind eye to instances of workplace harassment at Boulevard Brewing Company, John McDonald, the Kansas City craft brewery’s founder, has taken over as interim president.
Anheuser-Busch InBev will use some of its 4 minutes of Super Bowl ad time to push one of its big hard seltzer bets of the year: Bud Light Seltzer Lemonade.
The top executive of Duvel Moortgat’s U.S. operations resigned today amid a growing number of accusations that management ignored years of accusations of harassment and hostility toward female employees at Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri.
FIFCO USA has appointed former Molson Coors executive Dan Hennessy as its new chief sales officer, effective February 8. Meanwhile, San Diego hard kombucha maker JuneShine has hired former Stone Brewing VP of sales Todd Karnig as chief commercial officer. And the Brewers of Pennsylvania (BOP) has appointed Adam Harris as executive director of the state guild.
