True Energy. Take The Crazy Plunge, Unlock Your Inner Entrepreneur.
Step 1: Commit ‘I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.’ – Thomas Edison Everyone has had an idea, but an idea alone is not worth a damn. I cannot begin to tell you how many times that someone has come up to me...
DPS to Acquire Bai Brands LLC for $1.7 (Billion BevIndustry).
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. (DPS), Plano, Texas, has reached an agreement to acquire Bai Brands LLC, Princeton, N.J., and its complete portfolio of high-growth premium antioxidant-infused beverages. The cash purchase price of $1.7 billion includes a tax benefit of approximately $400 million on a net present-value basis and will be financed through new unsecured notes and short-term commercial paper, the...
Have Your Own Tequila. Blue Nectar Debuts Blending Program (MarketWatchMag)
Retailers, bars and restaurants can create their own unique blends. Blue Nectar Tequila has introduced a custom blending program for on- and off-premise accounts, available across its 15-state distribution network. The initiative aims to provide an innovative way for retailers, bars and restaurants to offer a unique Tequila. “A lot of Tequila brands do single barrels, but that means investing...
CROWD FUNDING FOR ALCOHOL PRODUCERS AND RETAILERS – DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE WITH THE TIED HOUSE LAWS
Crowdfunding is the most intriguing recent method of raising capital for the development of small new business ventures; typically in small amounts of money from a large number of people. Couple crowdfunding with the phenomenal increase in small craft producer start-ups in the wine, beer and distilled spirits industries over the course of the last five years and the...
Long Island Iced Tea Corp (LTEA). $6.9 MILLION RAISED. @NASDAQ
Long Island Iced Tea Corp. (OTCQB:LTEA) (the “Company”), a growth-oriented company focused on the ready-to-drink (“RTD”) tea segment in the beverage industry, announced today the closing of its offering of shares of common stock to the public at a price of $5.50 per share on a “best efforts” basis. The Company has sold 1,242,685 shares of common stock in...
Interview with Margaret Rosenfeld, Smith Anderson on Reg A+
Margaret Rosenfeld has corporate and securities law experience both within the United States and internationally. She leads Smith Anderson's International Law practice. Her practice includes public company reporting, corporate governance, public offerings and private placements of securities for issuers and investment funds, corporate investigations (internal and government), mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property protection and licensing as well as...
Bucha Acquiring New Age Beverages (NBEV) $0.95 is the Beginning, Not the End.
$ABRW Signs Merger Agreement with $50 Million New Age Beverages (NBEV). "We can take the position as a world leader in healthy, functional beverages,"Brent Willis, Buca Inc CEO. While a merger can mean the end (of independence) for many small and fast-growing beverage companies which get swallowed up by larger players, Bucha Inc's merger heralds a new beginning in the fast-growing healthy, functional...
Core Hydration Joins Dr Pepper Snapple’s Allied Brands Portfolio.
May 15, 2016. Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPSG) this week announced that it has added Core Hydration to its allied brands portfolio, a move that will significantly expand distribution for the premium water brand. The announcement follows a successful test in which DPSG distributed Core in Northern California, parts of Nevada and western Pennsylvania...
Alkaline Water Co. (WTER) Advises That Beverage Stock Review Initiates Coverage
Report Notes Alkaline88 Is "Crushing the Competition in Southern California" SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- (Marketwired) -- 05/09/16 -- The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (OTCQB: WTER) (the "Company"), developers of an innovative state of the art proprietary electrolysis beverage process packaged and sold in 500ml, 700ml, 1-liter, 3-liter and 1-gallon sizes under the trade name Alkaline88, is...