M&A in 2023: Selling, Merging, & Buying Back Breweries

One of the leading themes for craft beer in 2023 has been mergers and acquisitions. Arlington Capital Advisors managing director Ryan Lake, industry board and advisory Simon Thorpe and Three Weavers co-founder Lynne Weaver discuss trends in the space, as well as tips for navigating deals, from craft-on-craft strategic partnerships, to buying back your brewery, and more.

Transcript

Speaker 1 [00:12] Hey, everyone. We are back in Marina del Rey and we're gonna finish up. I'm gonna book in this session with a couple of M&A talks. So, 2023 was an unusual one for M&A activity. As one of our panelists said, and I'll keep them, you know, I'll keep it anonymous. I won't name names, but it's a big fucking mess, and I may be paraphrasing a little bit, but we saw a seemingly unending stream of smaller craft breweries merging and forming partnerships. The major acquirers in the market were a Canadian cannabis firm and a newly formed beverage platform in the Pacific…

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