Canadian co-packer Joriki Beverage reportedly shut down its only U.S. facility in Pittston, Pa., this week, according to regional news reports, giving employees no prior warning of an impending closure. 229 staff members at the company’s plant were left jobless.
In this week’s new products roundup, Nestlé rolls out another product geared toward GLP-1 users, Minus Coffee transitions from RTDs to instant powdered lattes, and Cann teams up with Sober(ish) for Dry January.
A U.S. Surgeon General advisory issued today called for adding cancer risk to health warning labels on alcoholic beverages and called for “a reassessment of the guideline limits for alcohol consumption to account for cancer risk.”
The adult non-alcoholic (ANA) beverage category has been driven recently by demand for functional options intentionally crafted to have an effect and positioned toward experiential occasions.
Delivering on transparency is now table stakes for brands if they want to connect with the largest and most diverse generation on the planet with a purchasing power of $360 billion – 60% of whom say they don’t trust claims brands make about their products.
Spirits-based ready-to-drink (RTD) canned cocktails are projected to grow at a +6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the U.S. through 2028, according to market research firm IWSR.
In the latest new spirits roundup, the cold weather means the oldest release to-date from Stranahan’s, spiked peppermint lattes from Dunkin’, and an experiment in aging from High West and Casa Noble.
Another year is behind us and, as is tradition around here, we like to close out the calendar with a look back at what stories caught the most attention of our readers. As we count down to 2025, here’s a countdown of the Top 10 most read BevNET stories of 2024.
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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.
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.
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?
