Saucey, the e-commerce on-demand delivery service available in 400 cities across the U.S., saw its business grow 300% last year as consumers shifted their purchasing away from the on-premise channel to off-premise retailers and e-commerce services.
Boulder, Colorado-based POS software provider Arryved has announced a $20 million funding round, which the company plans to invest in brand marketing and expansion.
U.S. brewers shipped an estimated 15 million barrels of beer in May 2021, an +8.9% increase (more than 1.2 million barrels) compared to May 2020, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing unofficial estimates of domestic tax paid shipments from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
Heineken has struck a deal to acquire additional shares of United Breweries Limited (UBL), making it the majority shareholder of the Bengaluru, India-headquartered conglomerate, the Dutch beer giant announced in a press release.
New Lord Hobo CEO Brian Walsh says his goal is to bring stability to the Woburn, Massachusetts-based craft brewery. Walsh, an industry veteran who most recently helped lead the post-bankruptcy business Smuttynose Brewing Company in New Hampshire, was introduced last Thursday as CEO, taking the reins from founder Daniel Lanigan, who remains a member of the company’s board of directors.
The owners of the Stonewall Inn — the historic bar in New York City where a 1969 uprising sparked the LGBTQ community’s fight for equality and is commemorated every June during Pride month — are removing Anheuser-Busch InBev offerings from the bar in advance of New York’s annual Pride march on Sunday, June 27.
On-premise sales velocity increased +78% in the week ending June 12 compared to the same time last year, according to the latest report from market research firm CGA.
Boosted by an earlier-than-expected seasonal transition and the return of the on-premise channel, sales of Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy have increased 13% year-to-date, according to the Molson Coors Beverage Company blog. “As we continued to excel with distribution and sales and the off-premise, we were able to quickly transition into Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy,” Dick Leinenkugel, president and chief beer merchant of Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company, told Brewbound.
E-commerce convenience store delivery platform GoPuff has struck another deal to acquire a brick-and-mortar alcohol retailer, Louisville, Kentucky-based Liquor Barn, which operates 23 stores throughout the state.
Iconic Denver craft beer bar the Falling Rock Tap House will permanently close on Sunday, June 27, after 24 years in business. Owners Chris, Steve and Al Black made the announcement Saturday in a blog post titled “So long and thanks for all the beers.”
PepsiCo filed an application with the U.S Patent and Trademark Office to trademark its Rockstar brand in the beer and “alcoholic fruit cocktail drinks; alcoholic malt beverages, except beers; hard seltzer” categories on June 14.
Sierra Nevada has filed a counter lawsuit against Matagrano, Inc., the Chico-headquartered craft brewery’s former South San Francisco-based wholesaler, in the Superior Court of the state of California, County of San Mateo. The trademark lawsuit between Constellation Brands and Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Grupo Modelo over the former’s ability to produce and sell Corona Hard Seltzer will continue, despite Constellation’s motion to dismiss, a federal judge ruled this week.
Minhas Craft Brewery, the second-oldest continuously run brewery in the U.S., is producing Happy Dad Hard Seltzer, which was created by the Nelk Boys, a group of Canadian YouTubers with more than 6.6 million subscribers.
Two former employees of Wormtown Brewery in Worcester, Massachusetts, are exploring their legal options after alleged sexual harassment and racially charged comments by fellow staff members, according to The Boston Globe.
