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The Annual Report Of The Federal Trade Commission For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30 1944 mentions a case "Manhattan Brewing Co., Chicago.--Seventh Circuit (Chicago), misleading use of words "Canadian" and "Wisconsin" in brand or trade names for beer or ale not brewed in Canada or Wisconsin." [2] The Canadian (Ace) issue continued through 1946. [3]
The Boston Beer Company is an American brewery founded in 1984 by James "Jim" Koch and Rhonda Kallman. [4] Boston Beer Company's first brand of beer was named Samuel Adams after Founding Father Samuel Adams, [5] an American revolutionary patriot.
The company was founded in January 1955 by Arizona businessman Jim Hensley [5] on a $10,000 loan. [6] [7] It originally had 12 workers, sold 73,000 cases of beer a year (a case typically being twenty-four 12-oz. bottles or cans), and had a 6 percent market share. [5]
Constellation Brands, Inc. is an American producer and marketer of beer, wine, and spirits.A Fortune 500 company, [3] Constellation is the largest beer import company in the US, measured by sales, [4] and has the third-largest market share (7.4 percent) of all major beer suppliers. [5]
Grupo Modelo is a large brewery in Mexico that exports beer to most countries of the world. Its export brands include Corona, Modelo, and Pacífico. [1] Grupo Modelo also brews brands that are intended solely for the domestic Mexican market and has exclusive rights in Mexico for the import and distribution of beer produced by Anheuser-Busch. [1]
In 2012 the company moved its brewing to nearby Ellon, ending operations in Fraserburgh in 2014. [11] In 2016, BrewDog open-sourced its beer recipes to the public, making them a form of Free Beer. [12] [13] In 2017, Private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners acquired a 22% stake in the company for approximately £213 million. [14]
Athletic Brewing Company is a U.S. manufacturer of non-alcoholic craft beer. [1] Based in Milford, Connecticut , the company was founded in 2017 by Bill Shufelt and John Walker. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2022, the company's sales represented nearly half of all non-alcoholic craft beer sold in the US. [ 4 ]
The main brand was Bass Pale Ale, once the highest-selling beer in the UK. [3] By 1877, Bass had become the largest brewery in the world, with an annual output of one million barrels. [4] Its pale ale was exported throughout the British Empire, and the company's red triangle became the UK's first registered trade mark. [5]