After a year of flavor innovation and development, Q Mixers has launched two new premium non-carbonated cocktail mixers. As spectacular as the brand’s leading carbonated cocktail mixers, these new additions were also crafted with less sugar, real ingredients (for those bold flavors Q Mixers is known for) and free of any artificial ingredients or preservatives.
Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B), a leading beverage alcohol company, announced today that it acquired the remaining interest in Austin Cocktails, a rapidly growing, female-founded ready-to-drink cocktail company out of Austin, Texas. Best known for creating premium, award winning bottled and canned craft cocktails, Austin Cocktails was started by two sisters who launched the brand as an homage to their late grandfather, Fred. Fred’s focus on family and his love of good spirits inspired the co-founders, Jill Burns and Kelly Gasink, to create high quality bar-proof drinks in convenient, ready-to-drink (RTD) formats.
The brand revolutionizing oat m*lk and the way consumers drink coffee, Minor Figures is thrilled to announce it is now a B Corp Certified Company – an official recognition of the social and environmental ethos that has guided the company from the beginning. Minor Figures is now one of just 4,856 B Corps globally and is proud to be among the ranks of companies setting the new standard for the way business should be done.
NV Group USA, responsible for the launch, development, and growth of NV Group India’s premium spirits brands in the US, announces the appointment of industry veteran, Scott Franklin, to the position of Executive Vice President of Sales. In his new role, Franklin will report to NV Group USA President, Mike Ginley, and oversee an aggressive growth plan for SMOKE LAB VODKA as well as the launch of additional premium spirits brands produced by NV Group India.
Spring is here, but ready-to-drink cocktail brands are already getting ready for the summer with a number of new product launches made for the heat – including vodka spitzes, frozen margaritas, and a classic Cape Codder.
Junipero Gin, the San Francisco-based award-winning brand that is celebrated as America’s first craft gin, announced today it has entered into a partnership with the San Francisco Giants, solidifying the brand as an official gin partner of the team.
Constellation Brands’ beer business recorded an +11% increase in net sales growth, to $6.75 billion, for the company’s 2022 full fiscal year.
In this Distribution Roundup, Ruby Hibiscus Water goes sparkling via Amazon and Earth Fare, nut milk maker Three Trees goes chainwide in Whole Foods Market stores and TEN Alkaline Spring Water flows into Meijer stores across the Midwest.
Premium spirit Latin Gin announces its U.S. launch, debuting, initially, in Florida. Latin Gin offers four expressions: Latin Spice, Latin Lover, Latin Secco and Latin Beach. Each is inspired by elements of the Latin lifestyle and all are available for purchase throughout Florida through Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits. Latin Gin is also available in Spain and the islands of Ibiza, Majorca and Menorca and for shipping to select U.S. cities through online ordering.
Siempre Tequila has introduced a virtual Bored Ape brand ambassador, marking the beginning of a push into web3 integration; Liquid Death sells out its Murder Head Death Club NFT line; evian introduces a limited NFT artist collaboration; Mid-Day Squares sells its Hershey diss video as NFTs.
Monster Hydro Super Sport – Monster Energy's performance hybrid drink that quenches thirst and offers superior hydration – is excited to welcome back PGA legend and Hydro Super Sport athlete Tiger Woods to The Masters this week. A return that recently felt unfathomable, Woods is back on the course and competing at the highest level of golf.
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., the agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 farmer families, today announced a collaboration with Atlantic Sea Farms, a women-run regenerative kelp aquaculture company, also local to New England, based in Maine, for ingredient use in Atlantic Sea Farms’ Cranberry Kelp Cubes. The sustainably grown kelp product further expands Ocean Spray’s functional product and ingredients portfolio. The Cranberry Kelp Cubes offer a way to combine two powerful superfoods that come from regenerative farming practices giving consumers an easy way to enhance their everyday diet and enjoy the health benefits of these nutrient dense, antioxidant rich, non-GMO, family farmed ingredients. Ingredients in the product include Kelp puree, cranberry puree, and cranberry seeds.
Spiritfruit, one of the fastest growing innovative New England Vodka Soda brands, is excited to announce a national partnership agreement with Integrity Wellness Brands (IWB), a leading management services company of alcohol brands in North America.
Clover Sonoma, a third-generation family-owned and operated dairy and Certified B Corporation, today announced the national launch of a first-of-its-kind dairy beverage: Organic Moon Milks. Steeped in ancient Ayurveda, one of the world’s oldest holistic healing systems, Clover Sonoma’s Moon Milks blend two percent organic milk, herbs, and spices that can help the body respond to physical and emotional stressors. Available in quart size, Clover Sonoma Moon Milks will be available nationally at Whole Foods Market starting in April in three flavors: Golden Moon (Turmeric Ginger), Blue Moon (Blueberry Lavender) and Pink Moon (Cherry Berry Hibiscus).
