Constellation Brands

Arguments in Colorado’s distributor termination dispute between Coors Distributing Company (CDC) and Constellation Brands began playing out earlier this week in the district court for the city and county of Denver.

In the wake of Martignetti’s acquisition of Girardi in Western Massachusetts, Atlas Distributing has added the Constellation Brands portfolio in Berkshire and Franklin counties, the Auburn, Massachusetts-based, independent blue-and-gold network distributor shared.

Constellation Brands is charging into the back half of its 2027 fiscal year (FY27) with renewed positivity, as well as a new surging brand in its portfolio.

Constellation Brands’ beer division recorded accelerating shipments gains in the second quarter of its 2027 fiscal year, the company reported Tuesday afternoon. Shipments (sales to wholesalers) increased 5.5% year-over-year (YoY) during the quarter, which ended August 31.

Constellation Brands has acquired SpikedAde, the second-largest ready-to-drink (RTD) vodka + ade/hard sports drink brand, the company announced in its Q2 earnings report.

Non-alcoholic social tonic maker Hiyo has closed an oversubscribed $20.8 million Series B round as it looks to build on its rapidly expanding retail footprint and push deeper into live entertainment and nightlife.

As it foreshadowed last week, Molson Coors-owned Coors Distributing Company (CDC) has filed a pair of lawsuits to halt terminations from two of its largest suppliers.

The exits of Mark Anthony Brands and Constellation Brands from Molson Coors-owned Coors Distributing Company (CDC) may not be frictionless.

The full Labor Day weekend is officially on the books in NIQ off-premise scans. Total bev-alc dollar sales in the four-week period (L4W) ending September 12 totaled $8.5 billion, while volume totaled 167.5 million cases.

Constellation Brands’ portfolio of popular Mexican imports will soon have different representation in the Denver area. The bev-alc giant informed Denver, Colorado-based Coors Distributing Company (CDC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Molson Coors, that it would be terminating their relationship in the next 30 days.

Bev-alc’s trajectory remained “stagnant” leading up to the final week of August, according to the latest weekly scans report from market research firm NIQ.

Martignetti Companies is expanding its New England footprint again. The beer, wine and spirits distributor has struck a definitive agreement to acquire Girardi Distributors, LLC, a Massachusetts-based, independent Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) distributor.

Check out news items initially reported in the Brewbound Insider Newsletter August 20-21, including headlines from the Brewers Association, Constellation Brands, Sierra Nevada and more.

The largest beer companies in the U.S. continue to shift their attention toward their growing spirits-based offerings. And it’s tough to blame them, given beer’s performance so far this year.