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A New Look For Easy Rider Bourbon

Hood River Distillers, the oldest and largest importer, distiller and marketer of distilled spirits in the Northwest, is re-launching their Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Easy Rider.

Scottie Pippen Launches His Own Bourbon

NBA legend and entrepreneur, Scottie Pippen, along with famed Wine & Spirits maker Dave Phinney to launch DIGITS, a five-year-old bourbon exclusively in Chicago.

Taste Radio: How Did Chloe’s Execute The Perfect Pivot? They Understood The Opportunity.

Chloe Epstein and Michael Sloan, the co-founders of better-for-you frozen novelty brand Chloe’s, explained why they shifted focus from foodservice to packaged goods, the leap from a slow and steady growth strategy to one that embraced national distribution and why Chloe’s is not shy about putting a target on the back of big CPG.

Boxed To Become Publicly Traded Company

Online retailer Boxed announced this week that it would become a publicly traded company via a merger with SPAC Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp. The proposed deal values Boxed at roughly $900 million, Seven Oaks said in a presentation to investors today, and will leave Boxed with $334 million in cash to invest back into the company.

Analysts See Long Term Growth for Oatly

“Powerful branding, international exposure, and strong Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) credentials” are just three of the qualities making Oatly a major player in the plant-based food and beverage space, according to a new equity research report from Credit Suisse.

New Mexico Fresh Foods Opens Southwest HPP Facility

The phrase “food desert” gets used a lot, but when it comes to New Mexico it can be a tad more literal. On Thursday, New Mexico Fresh Foods (NMFF) will host a ribbon cutting ceremony to help change that, celebrating the opening of its new high pressure processing (HPP) tolling facility -- the first in the state.