The Real McCoy is imported by Davos Brands, whose portfolio includes the Ty Ku Sake and Aviation Gin brands. Davos is led by Ty Ku founder Andrew Chrisomalis and Svedka founder Guillaume Cuvelier, and is partnered nationally with Southern Wine & Spirits and with Glazer’s in nine states.
A veteran of the beverage alcohol industry, Ackerman has over 25 years of leadership experience with well-respected companies including Allied Domecq, William Grant & Sons, Inc., and most recently as vice-president, national sales manager of Van Gogh Imports.
Chattanooga native and company founder, Tim Piersant, along with a team of whiskey enthusiasts and local supporters, launched the city’s first whiskey brand since prohibition in 2012.
The Starbucks-owned company recently launched a new six-SKU line of 11 oz. bottles that was designed to bolster brand presence and sales in mainstream retailers and tap into the vast well of consumers that have grown up on pasteurized super-premium juice brands like Naked and Odwalla.
The new flavors are available in select grocery stores nationwide this month in ready-to-drink 64-ounce bottles with a suggested retail price of $2.49 per bottle.
The release of the new website follows several key hires and new investment across the company’s Marketing, Sales and National Accounts divisions.
Surveying retailers who represent over 15,000 convenience stores nationwide, the report found dollar sales of non-alcoholic beverages in C-stores were up 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2015.
Skinny Lemon Company is a California-based health and lifestyle company that was founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Amber Blumer.
Celebrations for Martell's Tricentenaire will be led by Diane Kruger who personifies the very essence of modern-day French Art de Vivre, elegance and style, according to the company.
Bai CEO Ben Weiss today revealed that Dr Pepper Snapple Group’s (DPS) $15 million acquisition of a minority stake in his company was based on a half-billion dollar valuation. The deal gives DPS a 3 percent ownership position in Bai, which also recently secured a $25 million line of credit from global investment banking firm J.P. Morgan Chase.
LAB is seeking investments ranging from $3 million to $10 million in early stage beverage businesses, and will not be exclusive to the alcoholic segment.
Eighteen months after signing a national distribution deal with Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS), Bai Brands, which has grown at a torrid pace in the timeframe, has sold an equity stake to the beverage titan.
The food and beverage industry was recently reminded that specific criteria needs to be met when using the word “healthy” on product labels. That reminder came in the form of an FDA warning letter sent to Kind LLC, the maker of Kind snack bars.
The companies are being combined by their joint owner, Dallas-based Highlander Partners, following Highlander's acquisition of Lemon-X in March.
