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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.
Boston Beer Company’s named executive officers (NEO) will all receive raises in 2023 and most will receive a portion of their 2022 bonuses, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Form 8-K filed last week.
Employees at Anheuser-Busch (A-B) InBev-owned Widmer Brothers Brewing have voted to join Teamsters Local 162, the union announced. Stony Creek Brewery has been approved by its hometown of Branford, Connecticut to construct a new tank farm, which would expand the company’s brewing capacity from 48,000 barrels, to 100,000 barrels.
Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) will still be promoting its big beer brands during Super Bowl LVII, despite foregoing its exclusivity rights for the Big Game this year.
Ball Corp., the largest manufacturer of aluminum cans in the world, reported full-year and fourth quarter global shipments up +0.8% and down -6.1%, respectively, including the company’s now-divested Russia business.
Boston Beer Company’s 2023 Samuel Adams Super Bowl ad will imagine a kinder and “brighter” Boston, starring “Your Cousin From Boston,” Boston Celtics legend Kevin Garnett and comedian Lenny Clarke.
Roughly one year after tweaking its formulation and packaging format, energy drink ZOA is revamping its product lineup once again with new flavors, a refreshed can design and a marketing campaign built around the tagline “Fuel Something Bigger.”
Diageo is deepening its roster of top-tier brands in reaching an agreement to acquire super-premium dark rum label Don Papa Rum for an initial fee of $281.5 million, the company announced today.
Super Bowl LVII is about a month away, and Molson Coors is in the competitive spirit. Molson Coors CMO Michelle St. Jacques and U.S. sales and distributor operations president Brian Feiro sent a memo to distributors early this morning, announcing its Big Game play.
Molson Coors continues to grow its non-alcoholic portfolio with its latest release Roxie, a zero-proof canned cocktail launching today exclusively online.
Even as A-B hopes for a rediscovery of Bud Light, the company is preparing for Michelob Ultra, its second best-selling brand, to overtake Bud Light as its best-selling brand within the next five years, Anheuser-Busch InBev U.S. CMO Benoit Garbe said.
Beer industry writer Josh Noel is leaving the Chicago Tribune to join Molson Coors as the Chicago-headquartered beverage company’s corporate communications manager.
Constellation Brands credited its fall price increases for its beer business’ slowed depletion growth, during the company’s Q3 2023 earnings call with investors Thursday.