Growth
Brands at
WSWA
The Beverage Information Group
honored the suppliers whose wine and
spirits brands won Growth Brand
Awards this year at the recent
WSWA Convention
he Beverage Information Group, Beverage Dynamics' parent
company, held a reception at the 70th Annual WSWA
Convention in Orlando, FL, this past April to recognize the
2013 Growth Brand Award winners in the wine and spirits categories.
Growth Brand Award winners were recognized in four categories:
Rising Stars, which must be less than five years old and have exhibited notable growth in the past few years; Fast Track, which must
have exceeded 100,000 9-liter cases in 2012, with double-digit
growth in each of the past four years; Established Growth, brands
moving a minimum of 400,000 9-liter cases, with notable growth in
the past few years; and the Comeback awards tier, honoring brands
that have rebounded in sales to at least the previous level after a
recent decline.
The Growth Brand categories are designed to organize the wine
and spirit brands demonstrating notable growth in a meaningful,
quantifiable way to help retailers, restaurateurs and the industry at
large discern existing and emerging trends. The article detailing the
Growth Brands for 2013 appeared in the March/April 2013 issue of
Beverage Dynamics.
T
Kate Latts, director of marketing
for Heaven Hill
Distilleries.
Gianna I. Franzia,
John Lastra, North director of digital
Florida area manmarketing for
ager for The Patron Bronco Wine.
Spirits Company.
Tony Bongiovanni, left, Beverage
Dynamics' vp of sales and associate
publisher, and Adam Rogers, senior
analyst for the Beverage Information
Group, served as co-presenters.
Left, Roberto J. Serralles, PhD, vice
president of business development, and
John Eason, COO/executive vice president of Serralles.
Brett Scallan,
vice president/
group brand
director at Ste.
Michelle.
Kurt Jungerren,
director of sales,
national accounts,
for Phillips
Distilling.
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