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Jaw Dropping Stats - Reports Of Bud Light Memorial Day Sales Dropping -60% As Brand Boycott Continues
Memorial Day customarily kicks off summer and the beer beverage industry generally looks forward to the enhanced sales that come from summer. However, if the recently published reports of Anheuser-Busch sales are accurate, which includes a stunning…
Beverage of the Week: A big ol' margarita throwdown, with Milagro, Santo and Batch & Bottle
Welcome back to FTW's Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie dough whiskey. The spirit that once induced nausea from a…
Monster Beverage (MNST) Stock: Do Not Buy At All-Time High
Monster Beverage (NASDAQ: MNST) stock is one of the hottest stocks of all time. The stock delivered a jaw-dropping 464 thousand percent price appreciation since the company went public in 1995. The annualized return has been massive over the past…
Energy Drinks Are Surging. So Are Their Caffeine Levels.
It has been more than 25 years since Red Bull hit the market and introduced caffeinated energy drinks to the United States. While the company claimed its beverage would “give you wings,” it never said it was actually good for people.
Fresh Take: Inside Costco's $1 Billion Bet On $4.99 Rotisserie Chicken
Visiting Costco's rotisserie chicken plant — the first chicken slaughterhouse built in America in years — underscored for me how fragile our food supply is, and how much it will take in coming years to produce food as the climate…
Global Organic Food & Beverage Market to Grow
Bonafide Research reports that the surge in demand for clean-label food and beverage products is expected to be a significant driver for the growth of the organic food and beverage industry. The rise in health consciousness among consumers…
25 Beverages To Enjoy As You Drink Around The World At Epcot
Epcot is one of the four major theme parks at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Here, visitors can explore future technologies, venture under the sea with Nemo and friends, discover fascinating cultivation techniques, and visit distinct…
A sweeping new bill would overhaul Wisconsin's alcohol industry, touching everything from breweries to wineries to wedding barns
MADISON - Wisconsin's alcohol industry would see significant regulatory changes under a new proposal from top legislative leaders — a compromise years in the making among the state's most influential players in the multi-billion-dollar…
English bubbly: toastier weather should cheer local wineries
Gusbourne and Chapel Down see rising sales Receive free Food & Beverage updates We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Food & Beverage news every morning. Twenty years ago the idea of customers, let alone investors, picking…
Emergency rule set in place regulating the placement of co-branded alcoholic beverages in Illinois stores
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Liquor Commission filed an emergency rule on May 26 to regulate the placement a display of co-branded alcoholic beverages in retail stores. A 'co-branded alcoholic beverage' is any alcoholic beverage that has…
The Dish: Two wine dinners set for June at Café Boulud, Meat Market
High season is in the rearview mirror, but the Palm Beach dining-out scene's roster of special events hasn't exactly cooled. Two wine dinners are on tap for June 15 and June 27. The first, at Café Boulud, is called “Voyage to…
'This doesn't make sense any more': why you still can't buy wine in New York supermarkets
In New York City, you can now buy marijuana from colorful smoke shops. But here in America's largest metropolis, you still can't legally buy a bottle of wine from a grocery store. The restriction dates back to the end of prohibition, and while most…
A Sex-Shaming Rant About Margaritas Accidentally Became the Song of the Summer
The early contender for the song of summer is a TikTok-fueled remix of a sexually explicit Evangelical sermon about margaritas. Earlier this spring, a 65-year-old Evangelical Christian named Cindy Smock — better known as Sister Cindy…
Trump's still selling Bud Light
Former President Donald Trump is still offering Bud Light at four of his hotels in the United States despite recent Republican boycotts against the beer brand. Bud Light remains on the beverage menus at Trump accommodations in New York, Chicago…
The City that Always Sleeps seeks help staying up later
City Hall is looking for people to join a new Nightlife Initiative for a Thriving Economy Committee (yes, NITE) to try to turn our sleepy hamlet into something just a bit world classier, with 'a more fun, equitable and family-friendly nightlife…
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