潜水简介:
- AB Inbev收购了平台啤酒,这是一家在2014年在克利夫兰成立的快速发展的地区啤酒厂。平台将成为AB INBEV的Brewers Collective单位的一部分,该单位目前拥有十几个精酿啤酒合作伙伴,该公司在新闻稿中说。
- 平台可制造季节性饮料,酸啤酒,苹果酒,水果啤酒,桶装啤酒和一系列硬塞尔策。除了在克利夫兰,辛辛那提和俄亥俄州哥伦布的品尝室外,平台计划在克利夫兰开设酸啤酒酿造设施和品尝室,以及匹兹堡的啤酒厂和品尝室。
- 共同创立平台的保罗·本纳(Paul Benner)表示,AB Inbev的购买将为公司带来资源和自治。
Dive Insight:
AB InBev's latest acquisition brings another regional craft beer company into the fold to diversify its portfolio. The alcohol giant also owns Goose Island Beer, Devils Backbone, Wicked Weed Brewing and Karbach Brewing, among others. Platform will be the 13th craft brand in the group when the acquisition is complete, according to AB InBev.
在过去的三年中,ABInBev表示,它已经向这些手工艺伙伴投入了超过1.3亿美元,使他们能够雇用近1,000名新工人,开放新设施并酿造更多啤酒。种植这一细分市场可以帮助酿造巨头困难的酒精市场随着消费者的要求转移。当消费者涌向烈酒,手工酿造,墨西哥啤酒和葡萄酒时,它的旗舰百威啤酒和Bud Light品牌已经看到销售滑梯。平台可以帮助AB INBEV吸引年轻的消费者。
这些交易还可以帮助世界上最大的酿酒厂进一步多样化,使其成为酸啤酒,水果啤酒和硬酿造公司。千禧一代和其他冒险饮料饮酒者是寻找不同的东西, and don't have loyalty to旧品牌。Major beer companies have been trying tolure this demographic group back。时尚的口味和风格可以溶胶的一部分ution.
对于精酿啤酒和该领域的其他一些饮料生产商,已经有成功的迹象。根据IRI, beer sales were up 3.5% from January through mid-July of this year, with flavored malt beverages, hard seltzers and domestic super-premium beers behind the increase. Craft beer sales were up 2.9% during that same period.
这些因素可能已经参与了AB INBEV对平台的收购,但是还有其他一些因素也可能吸引了该公司。根据克林的克利夫兰业务,酿酒商集体总裁马塞洛·迈克尔斯(Marcelo Michaelis)直到三个月前在拜访纽约另一家手工艺伙伴时购买了几只啤酒,才知道平台的存在。迈克尔斯说,他喜欢设计,啤酒及其增长速度。他告诉该出版物,他给他留下了深刻的印象,即手工艺品酿酒师通过自来水和其他创意策略在五年内扩展到三个城市。
How AB InBev might be able to incorporate Platform's regional style into its existing products remains to be seen, especially as the beer business ebbs and flows as new beverages emerge and consumer trends shift. Whether the parent company will invest more in ciders, sour beer, fruit ales and hard seltzers will likely depend on those developments and the upcoming sales it sees from its newest craft partner.










