Diversity in Spirits: Black Spirit Owners Look to the Past and the Future to Build Legacy Businesses

Last week, premium whiskey Uncle Nearest announced its third in a series of investments designed to create a tangible shift in the funding inequities for BIPOC-owned businesses. It comes at a time when other Black founders and business leaders are also making strides to celebrate Black people’s historical contributions to spirits and build more Black-owned legacy beverage businesses.

BevNET Live: Watch Main Stage Presentations & Taste Radio Studio

We're on the cusp of BevNET Live Summer 2022, but if you don’t have a seat at the conference, we don’t want you to miss out on the important conversations happening on the main stage and in the Taste Radio Studio. We will make a free livestream available on June 15th and 16th, presented by Firmenich and International Beverage Capital.

Coca-Cola, Jack Daniel’s Set to Launch RTD Cocktail

The Coca-Cola Company is accelerating its push into beverage alcohol with today’s announcement of a new global partnership with Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey to release a ready-to-drink cocktail.

Guest Column: Your Baby’s Not Ugly, It Just Has the Wrong Name

Whether you’ve raised millions of dollars, been in the market for over a decade, have a cult following or just recently launched, renaming can be an amplifier to success, not a deterrent. Reframing a name and brand change is an opportunity for greatness rather than an admission of failure.

Food for Thought at BevNET Live: Surviving the Squeeze with Encore Consumer Capital

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added one more important speaker to BevNET Live Summer 2022 in New York, N.Y. As the country starts to wrestle with the potential of recession and the costs of materials and transportation rise, brands themselves are facing uncertainty around manufacturing issues: ingredients, packaging, labor, even the way retailers themselves are dealing with the larger economy.

Diversity in Spirits: Pronghorn and Distilled Spirits Council Partner To Increase Hiring of Black Community in Spirits

The pronghorn is the second-fastest land mammal in the world, second only to the cheetah. But the pronghorn can sustain its speed for longer than a cheetah, according to Dia Simms, a co-founder of Pronghorn, an initiative focused on cultivating the next generation of Black entrepreneurs, executive leaders, and founders within the spirits business. Simms, the CEO of Lobos 1707 Tequila & Mezcal, called the name Pronghorn symbolic of the race to correct inequity in the spirits industry, which she described as a marathon, not a sprint.

Star Power: What Makes Celebrity Booze Brands Fly or Fail

From actors to musicians to the world’s richest man, high profile figures have built their own category within the alcohol industry: celebrity spirits. But as celebrity-owned or endorsed brands become the norm, what makes them succeed or fail?