Wirtz Beverage Canada officially launched July 2 establishing the country's largest brokerage model in the beverage business. Wirtz Beverage will serve as the exclusive national broker for the Diageo beer, wine and spirits portfolio in Canada, in an agreement...

It's been seven months since legal marijuana went on sale in Colorado, and the good news seems to keep coming. Contrary to what some opponents of legalization claimed, crime hasn't increased, and now beer and alcohol don't seem to have been replaced with a taste for...

Following a spate of high profile buyouts in the spirits industry this year, Chivas Brothers has revealed it is on the look out for further acquisitions of its own.   Speaking to The Spirits Business, Laurent Lacassagne, CEO of Chivas Brothers, the whisky and gin...

A legislative research committee held a hearing on Monday on whether or not wine distributors should be allowed to ship customers bottles of wine in the mail, and how the shipping could be regulated.   For wine lovers, the Legislature has some good news. Sort of....

New York-based Tequila Avion, the 5-year-old spirits brand backed by big name investors - including AOL's Tim Armstrong, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley and Coach Chairman Lew Frankfort - has sold a significant majority stake to French beverage giant Pernod Ricard....

There's a party going on in US spirits with producers pushing boundaries as never before. Tom Bruce-Gardyne investigates the latest craze for hybrid spirits   In a strive for innovation, hybrid spirits have emerged as cross-category champions   It's not just...

Spirits sales growth steady; price/mix moderates a bit Total spirit sales in Nielsen-tracked xAOC (food, drug, mass, WMT; ex-Washington) grew +5.0% for the four weeks ended 6/21, in-line with its 12-wk average, driven primarily by volume growth of +3.8% and price/mix...

Despite the many promises made by proponents of Washington State's privatization Initiative 1183, the citizens of that state didn't reap major benefits.   In the Initiative ad campaign, proponents claimed the benefits of privatization would include lower prices,...

De Kuyper Holding NV based in Schiedam, the Netherlands has reached agreement with Clever Imports LLC that Its Miami---based subsidiary, Royal Dutch Distillers, Inc, will as of today act as sole importer of the Chocovine portfolio in The United States.  Royal Dutch...