Justin Kendall provides daily coverage of the beer industry on Brewbound.com, conducts live-streamed interviews during Brewbound’s events and co-produces the Brewbound podcast. Kendall is a nearly 20-year career journalist who led alt-weekly newspapers in Kansas City, Missouri, and Des Moines, Iowa.
"It's going to be an M&A musical chair game," Arlington Capital Advisors managing director Townsend Ziebold said earlier this month at Beer Marketer's Insights conference, as too many strategic buyers are chasing too few scaled ready-to-drink (RTD) brands.
Four Loko-maker Phusion Projects has licensed some of its brand assets to Chuck It LLC for use on intoxicating hemp beverages.
Diageo CEO Dave Lewis is reportedly slashing jobs as part of a reorganization of the struggling alcohol giant, whose portfolio includes Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Smithwicks, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Crown Royal and Casamigos.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits (SGWS) have reached a tentative settlement agreement in the federal agency’s price discrimination lawsuit against the nation’s largest wine and spirits distributor.
JuneShine co-founder Forrest Dein paraphrased Willie’s namesake, country music icon Willie Nelson, in a conversation with Brewbound: “Stress is the biggest killer on the planet; cannabis is the best medicine.”
After 50 years in business, Reyes Beverage Group’s dealmaking ambitions aren't close to done – in and out of beer.
As ready-to-drink (RTD) M&A heats up, Carbliss is open to potential acquirers, co-founder Adam Kroener made clear Wednesday at Beer Marketer’s Insights spring meeting.
Columbia Distributing and Hayden Beverage are officially teaming up in the Pacific Northwest.
Reyes Beverage Group’s mega deal for 11 RNDC markets closed at the end of business on Friday, adding 38 million cases to its more than 360-million-case business.
Sazerac-owned BuzzBallz is leading the way in the ready-to-drink (RTD) segment.
Columbia Distributing has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to acquire “certain wine and spirits distribution rights” in Oregon and Washington state, as well as “an asset arrangement in Alaska
Last year, Blue Cloud’s bev-alc crossover portfolio of Hard MTN Dew and Lipton Hard Iced Tea grew revenue 30%, as the new business model takes hold.
All 514 employees at Eagle Rock Distributing Colorado's operations will be permanently laid off in June following the completion of its sale to Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (SGWS), according to an April 2 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice.
Pine State Trading Co. is a fourth-generation, family-owned New England distributor with operations in Maine and New Hampshire.
