Automotive technology company Protean Electric has completed a $40m equity investment as the initial closing of its Series E funding round. The investor group is led by Weifu High-Technology Group, a leading diversified automotive ...
MGP Ingredients has announced the launch of Rossville Union, their first proprietary Rye Whiskey label. Named after the founding distillery in Lawrenceburg, Rossville Union represents a historic return to the home of crafted rye whiskey ...
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Revel Spirits is introducing both its brand, REVEL, and a new category of distilled liquor, Avila, made from 100% blue weber agave. Avila is also made from 100% blue weber agave—the same plant base as tequila—but grown in the ...
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Lyon Distilling Company of St. Michaels has released its latest concoction – a special, limited batch Black Rum with a percentage of every bottle sold benefitting the projects and programs of the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy (ESLC). ...
Scottish distillery Glenmorangie has re-introduced in limited edition, its Astar, a single malt whisky, matured in designer oak casks. The designer casks have been made from the oak found in Ozark mountains of Missouri. These casks are ...
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Samuel Adams has collaborated with five different breweries across the US to brew a limited series of 12-pack, named Brewing the American Dream Collaboration Pack. From bartenders to chefs, the collaborative spirit of "craft" is stronger ...
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US-based craft brewery Funky Buddha has launched a new series of specialty beers, The Living Barrel Series, with a new look. A bit about the series: "Like the spiraling growth of a tree's branches, so too are these beers transformed ...
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Bowmore Islay Single Malt Whisky has announced the US release of the fifth and final edition of the Black Bowmore 1964 distillation: Black Bowmore 1964 50 Year Old. The last cask rediscovered of Black Bowmore 1964 has spent an astonishing ...
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Seaboard Folding Box, a portfolio company of private equity firm Charter Oak Equity, has acquired paperboard specialist Imperial Packaging for an undisclosed price. Based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Imperial Packaging manufactures folding ...
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Canadian distillery Crown Royal has launched the second limited edition of its Noble Collection whisky in the country. This time, the company has introduced a wine barrel finished whisky. The introduction is part of a series of annual, ...
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Eastside Distilling has acquired a controlling stake in Big Bottom Distilling (BBD), a Hillsboro, Oregon-based distiller of super premium gins, whiskeys, brandies, rum, and vodka. BBD was founded by Ted Pappas, a past president of the ...
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Campari America has breathed new life into long-forgotten pre-prohibition bourbons with the launch of the Whiskey Barons collection. The first two Bourbons to rise from the annals of whiskey history are Old Ripy and Bond & Lillard – ...
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Blackford Capital has made an undisclosed investment in Indiana-based Ellison Bakery, a manufacturer of cookie, snack bar, crunch and inclusion product, and other products for the industrial market, food service industry, and retail and ...
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TD Artisan Spirits has added Greenhook Ginsmiths to its artisan spirits portfolio and will start the brand's national expansion. Founded in 2012 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, by brothers Steven and Philip DeAngelo, Greenhook has become a ...
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US-based PPG has opened a nearly $3m expansion for packaging coatings manufacturing at its Oak Creek facility in Wisconsin. As part of the expansion project, the firm added a new 3,300ft² facility to produce food-can coatings to help ...
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