This year’s spirits news was full of big names and bold moves: warring tequilas, sudden closures, celebrities popping in and out of the industry, and even an intern blowing things up. Here are the top 10 BevNET spirits stories, as ranked by popularity.
Over the past year-plus, we’ve written repeatedly about the slowdown in venture funding and strategic transactions, and panelists on our stages continue to point out that they’d rather see brands with high margins and profitability.
We’re not prognosticators. But we are a hopeful bunch. With a new year on the horizon, the hosts have five (actually, six) wishes for the food and beverage industry in 2025. Swift progress is unexpected, but these are reasonably achievable goals.
With the RTD category at peak saturation, retailers and distributors want to know brands can bring incremental consumers – otherwise they’re not taking any chances, shared Cassie Finley, VP of customer development at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits during the 2024 Winter BevNET Live conference in Marina Del Rey.
Saint James Iced Tea has signed a multi-year partnership at the Barclays Center offering advertising, activation and brand-building opportunities.
This year marked another 365 days of high excitement and anxiety, specifically in relation to the explosion of legal hemp-derived THC, as the push-and-pull of economic opportunities and legal hurdles combined into a dizzying cocktail that left us all feeling, well, a little high.
For a brand with a diminutive name, Small Town Cultures has big ambitions. Founder and CEO Cori Deans, talks about how she built a mission-driven fermented food company that is differentiated from legacy and upstart players and how it is attempting to expand the appeal and accessibility of probiotic-rich products via distribution in conventional grocery chains.
From the continued rise of the all-day drink to sophisticated zero proof concoctions, 2024 was a year of both nostalgic and progressive ideas in cocktails. So what’s in store for 2025?
Articles about the decline in alcohol consumption and the rise of non-alcoholic options have gotten a lot of buzz lately. Looking at the sales data, it seems to ring true.
Over the L52 weeks, Spirits demonstrated the most value to Total BevAl, having held the largest share of $ sold.
In this week’s new products roundup, Ocean Spray jumps on the powdered beverage train, good2grow grows its BIGGER juice line, and LEVIA takes inspiration from an iconic Massachusetts restaurant’s Scorpion Bowl cocktail.
Roughly a year after being acquired by SOURCE Global, aluminum packaged spring water brand Proud Source is hoping a new distribution pact with New York powerhouse Dora’s Naturals will get its increasingly national business flowing at the start of 2025.
Did anyone see this coming? Last week, BevNET learned that the Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo plan to launch prebiotic, low-calorie sodas in 2025. How will their respective forays impact the fast-growing category and what does it say about potential acquisitions of leading brands Olipop and Poppi? The hosts weigh in.
Seoul Juice, a brand of bottled Korean pear juices, has been acquired by Arizona-based CPG portfolio company FoodStory Brands, three years after its founding in a St. Louis University dorm room.
