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Azúcar Tequila Taps Cavinder Twins for RTD Margarita Launch
Influencers and former collegiate basketball players Haley and Hanna Cavinder are aiming to throw Azúcar Tequila an alley-oop as the creative directors of its new ready-to-drink (RTD) margaritas, the company announced Thursday.
Summit Brewing, BMO Bank Reach Agreement; New Lender to Take Over MN Brewery’s Loans
Summit Brewing Company’s loans have been acquired by a new lender, giving the St. Paul, Minnesota-headquartered craft brewery a pathway to developing and executing “a recapitalization and long-term growth strategy aimed at strengthening Summit’s balance sheet and supporting its vision for the future.”
Duvel Makes Boulevard’s Space Camper a Comic Book Hero, Eyes Light Beer, Targets Hard Seltzer Growth
Duvel USA’s 2026 distributor meeting presented a focused plan to build on and refresh its existing franchises, while adding a few new brands where needed – avoiding any bombshell innovation news, such as the 2025 meeting’s Quirk THC Seltzer drop.
Atlas Distributing Adds Constellation Brands’ Beer Portfolio in 2 Western MA Counties
In the wake of Martignetti’s acquisition of Girardi in Western Massachusetts, Atlas Distributing has added the Constellation Brands portfolio in Berkshire and Franklin counties, the Auburn, Massachusetts-based, independent blue-and-gold network distributor shared.
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Why Stadium Partnerships can be the ‘Ultimate Sampling Weapon’ with Two Robbers’ Vivek and Vikram Nayar
Two Robbers Spirits Co.’s partnership with the Philadelphia Eagles is helping the 7-year-old company fly. On the latest edition of the Brewbound Podcast, Two Robbers founders Vivek and Vikram Nayar share how partnerships with Philadelphia pro sports teams have helped raise their local profile and increase rate of sale in off-premise retailers.
Stone Co-Founders Greg Koch and Steve Wagner to Take Over Former Escondido Location, Open Independent Restaurant
Stone Brewing’s World Bistro & Gardens location in Escondido, California, will soon return to familiar hands.
Bev-Alc Increases Trail Overall Inflation in September CPI as Gas Prices Surge
Costs continue to rise amid skyrocketing gasoline prices and stubborn inflation, but beverage-alcohol may not be one of the line items stretching consumers’ budgets, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI).
New NBWA Chair: Beer Remains the Trump Card, But Distributors Need the ‘Whole Deck’
As distributors expand their portfolios beyond beer, they need to remember that “beer is the trump card,” incoming National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) chair Luke Dahlheimer said Tuesday during his speech at the trade association’s Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida.
Bars and Browsers Are Driving Adult Non-Alc’s Growth
Off-premise retailers still account for most of adult non-alcoholic (ANA) offerings’ sales, but the on-premise and e-commerce channels are now growing about twice as fast, according to a recent NIQ report.
Beer Needs an Early Holiday Boost to Meet 2026 Projection, per Latest Circana Weekly Scans
The beer category should hope for an early start to the holidays to juice sales, Circana EVP of BevAl Scott Scanlon wrote in the data firm’s weekly scans report.
Brewbound Live LA 2026: Early Registration Savings End Friday, Oct. 23
As breweries and beverage alcohol companies plan for 2027 and beyond, the decisions in front of them keep getting harder: where to invest resources as drinkers move between beer, spirits, RTDs and non-alcoholic options, how to hold onto distribution as that sector contracts, and how to win back on-premise traffic. Brewbound Live puts those decisions on the table. On December 9-10 in L.A., brewers, entrepreneurs, distributors, retailers and investors will compare notes on what’s working, pressure-test their plans for the year ahead and meet the partners who can help carry them out.
RNDC’s Remaining Michigan Operations Find New Ownership, Pending Court Approval
A handful of wine and spirits distributors plan to acquire Republic National Distributing Company’s (RNDC) remaining operations in Michigan.
TailGate Brewing Acquires Yazoo’s Madison Brewery; Yazoo Production to Continue
Nashville’s TailGate Brewing has acquired the campus and facility of Yazoo Brewing in Madison, Tennessee, which will serve as its primary production hub, the breweries announced Tuesday.
White Claw Maker Enters Hard Sports Drinks with RefreshAde as More Players Join the Field
Mark Anthony Brands navigated the hard seltzer gold rush phase with White Claw coming out on the other side as the segment’s top-selling brand. The company is looking to repeat in the fast-growing hard sports drink segment with a challenger brand: RefreshAde.