2026 M&A: What’s Shaping Buyers’ Wishlists?

After more than a year marked by lower deal counts but rising enterprise value, the food and beverage M&A market is both cautious and selective, though deals may accelerate if macro conditions stabilize.

BevNET Live NYC 2026: How Dirty Shirley Cleaned Up

Adam Kost made a quick sale out of his RTD cocktail brand, taking it from its first appearance, in 2022, to a March exit to Sazerac. But Dirty Shirley almost didn’t make it to the store; its success ultimately depended on one key early pivot to allow the brand to break free of category boundaries and establish its own lane for growth.

Beverage Sales Heating Up As Volume Gains In Early April

We’re still only in April, but the pre-summer indicators are positive this month as non-alcoholic beverages continued to accelerate sequentially on the back of strong volume gains and stable pricing.

Cutwater and Surfside Push Triple Digits as Overall Spirits Sales Turn Positive

Springtime must be here because total bev-alc dollar sales flipped to positive (+0.5%) in the two-week period ending April 4 – a sequential improvement from -0.8% in the four-week window and -1.2% in the twelve-weeks, according to the latest analysis of NIQ data from Goldman Sachs Equity Research.