American whiskey is in a weird place. It's not uncommon to say that the whiskey industry is five to seven years behind craft beer in terms of trends. Some facts today do echo what the brewers faced when things started turning south for their business.
When it comes to wine, more people are embracing the box - Bota Box, that is. The premium boxed wine brand not only took home three Growth Brands Awards this year, but it also enters the Growth Brands Hall of Fame.
Constellation Brands has achieved significant growth during the past year as it continues to build upon its brand portfolio. More specifically, its ready-to-drink (RTD) portfolio.
With the spirits industry still experiencing a softer market after record high sales during Covid, producers have worked overtime to come up with creative marketing solutions to keep sales flowing. Our 2024 Spirits Supplier of the Year, Suntory Global Spirits is hitting its stride, with Marker's Mark, Hornitos, Knob Creek and Basil Hayden increasing case sales from 2022 to 2023.
AI is taking the digital transformation industry by storm. Whether it’s by streamlining employee processes, improving quality control, predicting demand and optimizing the supply chain, every aspect of a business has become easier with the help from AI.
Despite wine's sales slump during the past few years, Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits has managed to grow several of its wine brands, earning the title of Beverage Information Group's 2024 Wine Supplier of the Year. The Crossings, Josh Cellars Reserve and Josh Cellars Prosecco, and Yellow Tail Pure Bright all received 2024 Growth Brands awards.
Given how difficult it is to sell beer for many companies these days, having two brands - Coors Light and Blue Moon - named as top sales drivers by our panel of beverage alcohol retailers, bar and restaurant operators and other industry professionals is very impressive. That's why Molson Coors is our Beer Supplier Of The Year for 2024.
The beer industry's struggles have continued this past year as consumers gravitate to spirits and cocktails and ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages, more of which seem to hit the market each week. But among the people whose drink of choice is beer, what are the favorite brands today?
We polled our beverage...
Beer sales have been less than desirable as of late, to put it mildly. The U.S. beer industry's volume consumption decreased 4.4% in 2023 to 2.68 billion 2.25-gallon cases. Just two beer segments - imported and flavored malt beverages (FMBs) - achieved any volume growth and that wasn't enough to offset the significant decline of other domestic beer categories.
For more than 20 years, Lucas Systems has been helping RNDC to optimize its distribution centers by providing warehouse voice picking and adjacent technologies. Utilizing different systems such as Jennifer™ and the Lucas Management Console, RNDC has doubled bottle picking productivity while also improving accuracy to an impressive rate of over 99%.
