Archive for July, 2015

Editor’s Note: Heaven Hill Brands is the U.S. market’s sixth-largest spirits player by case volume, in addition to being America’s number-one independent, family-owned distilled spirits company as well as the world’s second-largest holder of aging Bourbon stocks. SND executive editor … Continue reading →

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Washington vintner Charles Smith flung open the 21-foot-tall doors of his Jet City winery to the public Saturday. Billed as the largest urban winery on the West Coast, Jet City occupies a 32,000-square-foot former Dr. Pepper processing plant in the … Continue reading →

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•Atlanta, Georgia-based SweetWater Brewing Company is preparing for an initial public offering, Reuters reports. With the backing of private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners, the company is reportedly in talks with investment banks about a stock market flotation that would … Continue reading →

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