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No bev-alc category was safe from year-over-year (YoY) losses in the latest off-premise scans from market research NIQ, which included the start of the Labor Day holiday weekend.

Once Minnesota’s largest craft brewery and one of the 25 largest in the country, St. Paul, Minnesota-based Summit Brewing Company is now facing bank foreclosure proceedings.

Vermont Information Processing (VIP) has acquired Encompass Technologies in a deal that merges two of the largest beverage industry technology companies.

Diageo, the first major spirits company to scale non-alc spirits alternatives, is building a mid-strength range in the UK.

Sierra Nevada’s strategy to continue 2026’s growth into 2027 involves a portfolio-wide packaging overhaul, the return of major brand campaigns and a meaningful dive into the beyond beer category.

Comparable Labor Day data has arrived, and the results – like much of this year – are “mixed,” according to the latest report from market research firm Circana.

The proverbial light at the end of the tunnel for Boston Beer’s rocky sales trends is coming from a product named after the sun itself. Sun Cruiser, the vodka-based hard tea launched in 2024, is on pace to double sales in 2026, founder and CEO Jim Koch said last week during the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference.

Another Oregon-based brewery is joining Ninkasi Brewing parent company Great Frontier Beverages.

U.K. brand MOTH is seizing on demand for the only bev-alc category still growing: premium, ready-to-drink cocktails.

Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (SGWS) has appointed Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) vet Glendal Vandenbempt as managing director of its newly created “Gold Division.”

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.

Former Bell’s Brewery executive vice president (EVP) Carrie Yunker has returned to the bev-alc industry after a more than 16-month “retirement.”

Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (SGWS) has entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the justice department and federal regulators to pay $12.5 million, resolving a probe into a years-long scheme to bribe alcohol buyers from California’s largest grocery chains.

Macroeconomic factors out of Molson Coors’ control continue to plague the brewer, but CEO Rahul Goyal believes there is also “much we have to do” as a company to help combat declines.