Beyond beer, the fourth category, progressive adult beverages – it goes by different names, but the one thing the beverage-alcohol industry can agree on is that it is too important to ignore.
Leaders representing 22 independent wholesalers submitted comments to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) Thursday, expressing concern over the marketing and sale of bev-alc products co-created by large soft drink companies such as PepsiCo and Coca-Cola.
Washington State’s Supreme Court extended the block on Albertsons’ $4 billion special dividend payment to shareholders late last week by granting the state attorney general’s (AG)’s request for emergency injunctive relief.
Washington-based craft distiller Heritage Distilling announced this week its plans to merge with Better World Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), to go public in a transaction that has a pro forma enterprise value of over $122 million. If completed, the merger will make Heritage one of the only publicly traded pure-play craft distilleries.
Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson rounded off the trade group’s week of looking back at 2022 with a Collab Hour webinar Thursday, analyzing craft’s 2022 performance and sharing predictions for 2023.
A judge has denied Anheuser-Busch InBev subsidiary Grupo Modelo’s bid for partial summary judgment in its trademark infringement lawsuit against Constellation Brands for the company’s use of the Corona trademark for hard seltzer.
Two weeks remain in 2022 and the reviews are beginning to filter in. Spoiler alert, it’s not been a great year. Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson ran through the trade group’s annual “Year in Beer” wrap up. Plus, for the last-minute holiday shoppers, how about buying a wholesaler?
Andrews Distributing Company of North Texas has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the assets of Price Distributing Company in Ennis, Texas, the company announced Thursday. The transaction is expected to close today.
Colorado-based beverage maker Hoplark is separating into two subsidiaries: Hoplark, which will oversee the core brand as it currently exists, and Hoplark Labs, a tech-driven division that will launch new beverage brands and products under the leadership of the company’s founder, Dean Eberhardt.
Rising prices may be concealing disappointing volume sales in the U.S. beer industry, financial services firm Credit Suisse cautioned in a recent report.
Bell’s Brewery is expanding the brand family of its flagship Two Hearted IPA, beginning with Hazy Hearted IPA and a new variety pack, the Comstock, Michigan-based brewery announced today.