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Anheuser-Busch InBev may be the top beer manufacturer in the world, but it has a way to go in spirits. “We are the competition,” A-B CEO Michel Doukeris said of the company’s position in the spirits category during Thursday’s Q2 earnings call.
Tilray Brands chairman and CEO Irwin Simon had a message for Wall Street during the company’s full-year fiscal year 2026 earnings call: “We are no longer defined by one category, one market or one regulatory outcome.”
Boston Beer Company has found another growth driver with its spirits-based hard tea brand Sun Cruiser, which continues to deepen its distribution footprint. But the hot ticket item continues to be unable to stop flooding volume from its sibling brands, as the company recorded yet another quarter of shipments and depletions losses.
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) U.S. chief marketing officer Benoit Garbe will resign at the end of the year, the company announced today. Garbe is departing to “embark on a new chapter in his career,” according to an A-B spokesperson.
Red Tree Beverages, Coca-Cola’s “firewalled, wholly owned” subsidiary to explore beverage-alcohol, has no intention of getting into the distribution business, Red Tree president Jenny Dowdy said yesterday during Beer Marketer’s Insights fall seminar.
Boston Beer Company has the No. 1 share of the hard tea segment with Twisted Tea, the more than 20-year-old flavored malt beverage brand that continues to record exponential growth in scans.
Constellation Brands has launched Shyft, “a new flavor changing” flavored malt beverage (FMB), in three markets as part of a newly created “emerging brands group” aimed at creating new-to-world brands with “a more focused but longer testing approach,” CEO Bill Newlands announced during the company’s “Investor Day” on Thursday.
Molson Coors has raised its full-year underlying pre-tax growth guidance by an additional 10% since its previous guidance, from +23% to +26%, to now +32% to +36%.
More than half of the top 25 beer vendors have declined in volume year-to-date (YTD), ending October 8, in Circana-tracked off-premise channels, according to the data firm’s monthly beer report.
The accelerated downturn of Bud Light led to double-digit declines in shipments, depletions and revenue for Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) U.S. business in the third quarter.
Dogfish Head will be going back to the future in 2024 with a refreshed logo that pays homage to its nearly two-decades old logo, marketing director Jennie Baver shared during Boston Beer’s national sales meeting last week. The company will also roll out 4-packs of 12% ABV rum, tequila and vodka canned cocktails.
Incremental innovation and clear brand identity were running themes throughout Boston Beer’s presentation to wholesalers in Los Angeles last week. Boston Beer shared an edited recording of the meeting with Brewbound this week.
As a response to the instability in segments of the beer industry, Boston Beer Company has adjusted both its financial guidance and its approach to innovation, executives shared yesterday during the company’s third-quarter earnings conference call.
Beverage sales in the convenience channel remained “healthy” in Q3 2023, up +4.4%, despite decelerating from stronger +6.6% growth in Q2, according to the latest Beverage Bytes survey of retailers conducted by Goldman Sachs Equity Research.
Boston Beer Company has filed a complaint against Downeast Cider and a former employee who now serves as the Boston-based cider maker’s SVP of marketing.
Massachusetts-based Quality Beverage has filed a lawsuit against Constellation Brands, alleging the bev-alc giant has interfered with its pending sale to wine and spirits wholesaler Martignetti Companies.