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It can be easy to forget that every brewery is also a business that requires strong leadership, a positive company culture, stable finances, and more. This section is for everything beyond the brewhouse, including regulation and government affairs; promotion of diversity and inclusion in the craft beer industry; establishment of best practices for human resources, management and leadership in breweries; maintaining healthy finance and accounting practices; and understanding the statistics and trends that are affecting the indsutry overall.
As we near the publication of the 2013 craft brewer data set, I’ve been thinking a lot about the states. In the medium/long run, the most important stories about craft brewing are state stories. How high is the peak in …Read More
The release of the top-50 brewing companies this week is wonderful reason to toast the success of regional craft brewing companies. That said, in many ways, the release of the top-50 may be less essential to the craft brewing movement than it once was.Read More
For those hooked on both data and craft beer, like me, the 18% growth number announced today may come as a bit of a shock; it exceeds any of the previously published segment growth numbers 2013. Why?Read More
For the March/April 2014 The New Brewer, we present our Business of Beer issue. For this issue, we take a look at the planning process for brewery expansions and provide insight into setting up an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Read More
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Dan Wandel presents channel shift over 2013, beverage alcohol dollar changes across channels, and stats on dollar shares at U.S. supermarkets.Read More
At the end of 2013, the number of breweries in the United States reached the highest level seen in the country since the early 1870s. At the end of December, the Brewers Association counted 2,722 brewing facilities in the US.Read More
January 1st, Colorado will become the first state in the nation to move forward with recreational marijuana sales. What if we adopted the same novel mindset as rule-makers in Colorado and created a new set of regulations for beer from scratch?Read More
It’s hard not to notice some echoes of the classic S-shape in the graph of craft beer market share. What would a diffusion model project for the next five to 10 years?
Crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter have been giving a boost to entrepreneurs’ start-up capital for almost four years, and new brewers are starting to take notice.
Good times returned to the U.S. beer industry in 2012, and great times continued for the vast majority of Americas 2,347 craft breweries.
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