Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) — which produces and markets the Widmer, Kona, Redhook and Omission craft beer brands as well as Square Mile Cider — today announced that, effective January 1, 2014, Andy Thomas will take over as the company’s new CEO. Thomas, who has served as CBA’s president of commercial operations since June 2011,… Read more »
Atlanta’s Sweetwater Brewing today announced the hiring of Kimberly Jones, who has been named the company’s new chief financial officer, according to a release. Jones, who most recently served as vice president and corporate controller with SPANX, an Atlanta-based women’s apparel company, brings more than 15 years of executive financial and management experience to Sweetwater.
If IRI data is any kind of indicator, the craft beer category is on its way to yet another year of double-digit dollar sales growth in 2013. With just six weeks left in the year, Brewbound examined recent IRI reports in an attempt to spot some trends. A closer look into the data revealed some… Read more »
There’s beer on the brain in Bentonville. Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, has said it wants to double its alcohol sales by 2016. One area of the store Walmart would like to see customers spending more time is the beer aisle.
The stage has been set for a classic Western shootout, but it’s not about Arizona horse rustlin’ — it’s about Arizona beer distributin’. The showdown is over North Coast Brewing, which is attempting to switch from its current distributor, Crescent Crown Distributing, to Hensley Beverage Company.
Brewbound recently had a chance to catch up with Joe Kaczynski, Boston Beer Company’s National Channel Manager for Convenience, and Joshua Grab, the company’s Trade Marketing Manager, for an informal discussion about how the company approaches the convenience channel in terms of sales growth and education of convenience store operators and consumers.
At this point, Rich Doyle — the co-founder of Boston’s Harpoon Brewery — could probably spend an entire day sharing business lessons from the past 27 years in the beer industry. But at yesterday’s Beer Marketer’s INSIGHTS conference in New York City, Doyle needed less than 30-minutes to provide the 200 or so beer executives… Read more »
Nearly one year after it acquired Chesapeake, Virginia-based Chesbay Distributing Company and Chicago-based Windy City Distribution, Reyes Beverage Group has announced it will make yet another purchase, this time in Southern California. The company plans to purchase Allied Beverages Inc., a wholesaler located in Sylmar, Calif. selling about 12.6 million cases annually.
Sex sells. There’s no secret in that. The titans of the beer industry know this, often pairing their mass-produced brews with beautiful women on your television screen. As those mammoth companies try to creep into craft territory, smaller breweries — which fit the accepted definition of being craft — try and barricade the door.
On Wednesday, Craft Brew Alliance — makers of Widmer Brothers, Redhook, Kona, Omission and Square Mile Cider — reported record third quarter depletion growth of 14 percent compared to last year. During an earnings call on Thursday, CBA attributed the positive growth trends to its national portfolio strategy of offering retailers and customers a variety… Read more »
Deschutes Brewery recently announced that it will to broaden its sales footprint in 2014 with new distribution in Ohio and Kentucky. The brewery will open the new territories beginning in January. The country’s fifth-largest craft beer company announced Tuesday that it signed a wholesale agreement with Heidelberg Distributing Company’s Rampant Brands Division, which services Ohio’s… Read more »
Since its launch in 1989, Odell Brewing has prided itself on a core belief that slow, steady growth is the healthiest way to build a beer brand. Over the last 24 years, Odell has been careful not to grow its distribution footprint beyond ten Rocky Mountain and Western Plain states.
While some craft breweries might go many years without refreshing their image, Southern California-based Hangar 24 decided that after just five years in business, it was time to give its aviation-inspired labels a small makeover.
After nearly two years of searching, Ballast Point has finally found a home for its new 150-barrel brewhouse. The San Diego-based craft brewery today announced that it has begun construction on a $12 million brewing facility in the Miramar district of San Diego.
