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The online grocery retailer announced today it is adding more than 100 SKUs across 20 brands to its adult non-alcoholic beverage set, while simultaneously dropping all of its existing alcoholic offerings.
Once Upon A Coconut has partnered with beverage incubator L.A. Libations to help grow its business in Southern California.
Better-for-you soda brand No Cap (stylized as NO CAP! Soda Pop) has added SoCal distributors John Lenore & Co. and various Anheuser-Busch InBev houses to its fleet of DSD partners.
Scottish ANA maker Spirits of Virtue is opening a 30,000 sq. ft. facility in Arkansas, where it will make alternatives to tequila and bourbon.
Functional beverage Chlorophyll Water is raising its first institutional round as it unveils an aluminum can format and prepares to enter Walmart.
Creatine is quickly becoming the next big functional beverage ingredient thanks to innovation in micro-encapsulation technology.
The new agreements add Sunset Distributing – a subsidiary of Hand Family Companies covering the Southern California market – as well as Pacific Northwest houses The Odom Corporation, Bigfoot Beverages and Summit Beverage Distribution Co.
BUM Energy, the RTD drink brand of fitness supplement maker RAW Nutrition, has brought on a team of seasoned liquid experts as it expands into mass and club channel retailers.
The Canadian beverage company launched its 5-SKU line of 12 oz. cans at Whole Foods Market stores nationwide this week as a 90-day exclusive, marking its formal entry into U.S. retail stores.
After years of declining sales and a retreading footprint, Steaz owner Nova Naturals, a subsidiary of Novamex, has brought on the organic iced tea brand’s original leaders to bring the brand back to a positive growth trajectory.
In this month’s distribution moves, Tequila ready-to-drink brands (RTD) Tequio and SipMargs expand with major partners, Bardstown Bourbon makes moves in New York, and Archer Roose flies into a major travel channel.
Hemp THC products startup Shift Naturals is freshly funded and ready for showtime, with NBA star Kevin Love now backing the business and promoting its DownShift sparkling waters, gummies and its latest innovation: ready-to-drink Shift Cocktails.
Super Coffee is finding a refreshed avenue for growth with its functional Protein+ line, which will roll out into all Kroger divisions nationwide in January; Cactus water brand Caliwater is deepening its on-premise restaurant business.
Wine and spirits distributor Fenway Associates is expanding operations into beer through the acquisition of independent Anheuser-Busch (A-B) distributor Ritchie & Page.
Yerba mate brand Clean Cause has converted $2.3 million to equity after raising the amount as a convertible note from previous investors last September.
Since its founding in 2021, Drink Weird has prided itself on its unique, outsider brand identity. But can that approach now help the company solidify yerba mate’s place in convenience stores?
Robert Hendrickson, interim CEO and president of Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC), has died. The news was first made public today by the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA).
