Philadelphia-based Top Dog Cocktails has invested $1.3 million in a strategic joint venture with Caribbean beverage brand Flamboyant Water to build a line of ready-to-drink (RTD) rum cocktails and develop a foothold in an untapped market.
A slate of mid-summer RTD releases brings Vodkade’s attempt to fill the spiked sports-drink flavor gap, two wine and cola combos, a hard ginger beer built on an orange wine base, and more. Here's what's new on the shelf.
We spoke with the team from Soft Bar + Cafe about how the third space gets cocktails to resonate with guests, what's selling, and where the category still has room to grow.
"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.
Cristian Molina built Hugo’s Cocktails on the premise that his nearly two decades behind the bar is a better source for flavor research than any focus group
Most founders build to scale, but Adam Kost, founder of ready-to-drink (RTD) brand Dirty Shirley, built to prove.
The founders who built NÜTRL into Canada's top vodka soda are putting that playbook to use again, this time with tequila.
The Zero Proof, a leading ANA beverage platform, today announced the acquisition of The New Bar, a West Coast-based non-alc hospitality and discovery program. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Brown-Forman and Sazerac are doubling down on ready-to-drink (RTD) with new releases launching today.
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.
Republic National Distributing Company’s (RNDC) Illinois operation – one of its remaining markets – is headed toward a shut down, as the distributor’s territory fire sale continues across the country.
After spending 40 years combined at William Grant, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Remy, Ken Wyatt and Ron Zier have taken their Idaho spirits company, 44° North Vodka, in the opposite direction of the global brands they’ve stewarded in the past.
Bev-alc declines persisted through the first week of June as the industry falls into a consistent pattern ahead of this summer’s major events, according to the latest weekly report from market research firm NIQ.
After a decade of building Aperol into one of the world's most recognizable cocktail ingredients by anchoring it to a ritual – the Aperol spritz – the Italian spirits giant is now applying the same playbook to Crodino, its zero-proof bitter aperitif.
