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Women in Beverage: Mara Smith

Cheers

How did you get into the beverage alcohol business? I’m a newcomer to the beverage alcohol industry. I read industry circulars, subscribed to newsletters, listened to webinars, read books, joined industry networks and even took a course offered by the CRT in Mexico on the production and history of tequila.

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What Do Investors Actually Look For In Non-Alc Brands? A Conversation With Jeff Cantalupo

Dry Atlas

Youre seeing dollars shift across categories: clean ingredient beauty, better-for-you food, and, more recently, alcohol alternatives. Maybe its drinking fewer drinks, choosing functional ingredients, or mixing and matching non-alcoholic and alcoholic options depending on the occasion. Thats what we refer to as hybrid drinking.

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Craft Brewing’s ‘Painful Period of Rationalization’ Is Here. Finally.

VinePair

Distributors and retailers shifted focus to imports, flavored malt beverages, and non-alcoholic offerings. In comments in a webinar on the year-end materials reported by Brewbound, he noted that the segments closure rate, while now in the red for the first time since 2005, is still low compared to the hospitality sector at large.