CPG: Adult Beverage

Articles on CPGs in the adult beverage space.

  1. Channel: Mass

Update: Target CEO Addresses Pride-Themed Merchandise Controversy

Editor’s Note: Target CEO Brian Cornell responded to the retailer’s removal of LGBTQ-themed merchandise from stores during June 2023, a.k.a. Pride Month, during an Aug. 16, 2023 call discussing Target’s Q2 financial results. He cited the “negative guest reaction” as one factor affecting the retailer’s sales in these comments: “As you know, we have featured […]
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  1. CPG: Adult Beverage

Molson Coors Beverage Co. acquires Blue Run Spirits

Molson Coors Beverage Co., Chicago, has reached an agreement to acquire Georgetown, Ky.-based Blue Run Spirits, an award-winning producer of finely crafted bourbon and rye whiskies. The deal represents another step in Molson Coors’ evolution as a total beverage company while providing Blue Run with resources to continue its growth. As its first spirits acquisition, the […]
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  1. CPG: Adult Beverage

AB InBev Is Still Feeling the Fallout of Bud Light Boycotts

It’s been almost exactly four months since Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) first raised the ire of conservative beer drinkers by partnering with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. But the brewing giant is still feeling the fallout of boycotts for its previously
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  1. Channel: Specialty & Other

Your Views:  Anchors Away

Got a number of emails regarding the possibility that employees at Anchor Brewing may try to buy the brand from Sapporo in an effort to keep it from being shut down, and my comment that if they do a GoFundMe page, I’d throw in a few bucks. One MNB reader wrote: Being a native San […]
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  1. Associates & Employees

Not Yet Dead: Workers Hope To Save Anchor Brewing

The New York Times reports that Anchor Brewing Company, which owner Sapporo said it would shut down, may get a lifeline. Unionized employees at San Francisco-based Anchor, the oldest craft beer brand in the US, “want to buy the 127-year-old company and run it as a co-op to save it from shutting down, a union […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon Plans Chainwide Rollout of Palm-Based Payments at Whole Foods

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., including 200 Whole Foods supermarkets, and have clocked more than 3 million […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon Plans Chainwide Rollout of Palm-Based Payments at Whole Foods

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., including 200 Whole Foods supermarkets, and have clocked more than 3 million […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery - Natural

Amazon One pay by palm tech to be deployed at all Whole Foods US stores by end of 2023

Shoppers will be able to pay with their palms at all 500+ Whole Foods stores in the US by the end of the year. The Amazon One service is currently available at more than 200 Whole Foods Market locations across the country, including Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Who’s Laughing Now? Trademark, Parody Products, and the First Amendment

Everyone loves parody products, those clever almost-branded gifts that draw in a customer, whether online or in a brick-and-mortal store.  Everyone, that is, except the trademark owner. In a recent trademark case, the U.S. Supreme Court made it easier for big brands to enforce their trademarks against joke products. The case involved Silly Squeakers, a […]
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  1. Operations & Supply Chain

Anchor  Away: Historic Craft Brewery To End Operations

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that historic Anchor Brewing Company, a San Francisco icon that was founded in 1896, has announced that it is “ceasing operations and liquidating the business.” The company said that “economic pressures” made keeping the business open unsustainable.  Employees have been given their 60-day notice. A spokesman said that “this was […]
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  1. CPG: Adult Beverage

Retailers can capitalise on summer’s ‘golden opportunity’ says Budweiser

Budweiser Brewing Group, brewer of popular beers such as Stella Artois and Corona in addition to Budweiser, is forecasting the summer months will drive a 20% increase in beer volume compared to the first quarter of the year. Summertime marks the start of warmer outdoor occasions and social gatherings. Last Q2, saw a 24% increase […]
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  1. CPG: Adult Beverage

Brown-Forman Announces Sale of Finlandia Vodka

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brown-Forman Corporation (NYSE:BFA, BFB) announces today that it has reached an agreement to sell its Finlandia vodka brand to Coca-Cola HBC AG for $220 million, subject to the customary closing process. The purchase is expected to close in the second half of the 2023 calendar year. “Finlandia has played an important role in […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Including Store No8 and Outlier Ventures: RTIH runs you through the week’s coolest retail technology plays

RTIH Editor, Scott Thompson, brings you his top ‘future of retail’ systems launches and deployments from the past week, including checkout free store milestones, startups focused on building in Web3, and the ongoing digitalisation of the fashion industry. Poundland Poundland has launched a suite of digital accessibility tools to support job applicants and workers with […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

Circana reveals 2022 New Product Pacesetters

CHICAGO – Circana, formerly IRI and The NPD Group, has released its 2022 New Product Pacesetters, the 28th annual report revealing the top new product launches across food and beverage and nonfood sectors. The report illustrates the enduring power of CPG innovation, revealing that consumer spending on new product offerings remained elevated last year despite challenges […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  Business.  Not Personal.

Yesterday we took note of a Boston Globe story about how youth organizers with the Hyde Square Task Force in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, did significant market research and figured out that a grocery cart of items at their local Stop & Shop cost $34 more than the same products at the chain’s store in suburban […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Parcel delivery firm Evri cuts carbon emissions by nearly a third and steps up e-cargo bikes push

Evri says that it has reduced its operational carbon emissions by nearly a third in the parcel delivery firm’s financial year to February 2023, as part of a wider investment in its environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.  This 31% reduction includes efficiency improvements, augmented use of renewable energy and other carbon emission elimination strategies, […]
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  1. Corporate Purpose

Bud Light Donates $200,000 to LGBTQ+ Organization

Advertising Age reports that Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Bud Light brand, reeling from a series of public relations missteps that have sent its market share into an even greater decline that it was seeing before, announced a $200,000 donation to the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The donation, according to Ad Age, extends “an existing partnership with […]
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Kroger Delivers its First-Party Data to the Yahoo DSP

Yahoo Advertising and Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM) — the retail media business of Kroger, powered by 84.51° — are teaming up to bring Kroger’s first-party, purchase-based audiences to the Yahoo Demand-Side Platform (DSP). Yahoo DSP advertisers can now activate KPM’s audiences to reach targeted consumers with their advertising and measure campaign results. While off-site advertising […]
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Amazon tops expectations for revenue, earnings

SEATTLE – Amazon posted better-than-expected revenue and earnings in the quarter ended March 31. Net sales increased 13% from a year earlier to $143.3 billion. The company reported first-quarter net income of $10.4 billion, or 98 cents a diluted share, compared to $3.2 billion a year earlier. Amazon’s operating income surged to $15.3 billion, up […]
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Walmart to close all 51 health centers

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart today said it has made the “difficult decision” to close its Walmart Health and Walmart Virtual Care clinics, citing a lack of profitability. “The decision to close all 51 health centers across five states and shut down the virtual care offering was not easy. We understand this change affects lives – […]
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