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Pelican – Altamar Brands Strategic Partnership, Anchor Brewery Acquisition

J Smoke Wallin — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:35:32 +0000

Well its been a busy couple of weeks since I posted my thoughts on the growth in Craft Brewing. Since then, Tony Foglio and Keith Greggor of Griffin Group (Formerly Skyy and in the old days Diageo/UDV/Paddington) purchased the Anchor Brewery from Fritz Maytag. Wow! I’d like to say they read my post, and went [...]

Kane’s Beverage News Daily – On Pelican Brands and J. Smoke Wallin

J Smoke Wallin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:32:23 +0000

I’m posting the Kane’s article from Fall 2009 tracking some of my activities and discussing the launch of Pelican Brands… now that we have begun adding a strong platform of brands, I thought it was relevant to share this as we articulated our strategy well here.

Kane’s Beverage News Daily

Volume 5, No. 184 The National Beverage [...]

The Margarita King Debuts Across the U.S. With Pelican Brands As the Exclusive Brand Manager For the Award Winning Margarita Cocktail In a Bottle

J Smoke Wallin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:08:46 +0000

Today, Pelican Brands and The Margarita King announced their exclusive partnership across the US. I am very excited by Pelican’s progress in attracting distinct brands with a real place with the consumer. More to come!

Kind Regards,

Smoke

The Margarita King Debuts Across the U.S. With Pelican Brands As the Exclusive Brand Manager For the Award Winning [...]

Artá Holdings Appoints Pelican Brands As Exclusive U.S. Brand Manager For Its Award Winning Artisan Tequila Portfolio

J Smoke Wallin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:12:56 +0000

Latest new brand for Pelican Brands – very exciting – more later, Smoke

FOR RELEASE April 7, 2010

Media contact:

Megan Hochstetler

001-317-574-6407

Artá Holdings Appoints Pelican Brands As Exclusive U.S. Brand Manager For Its Award Winning Artisan Tequila Portfolio

Artá Hand Crafts Ultra Premium Tequila with a Conscience

Las Vegas, NV, San Francisco, CA & Carmel, [...]

Napa Smith Appoints Pelican Brands As Exclusive U.S. Brand Manager For Its Award Winning Craft Beer Portfolio And Its World Class Napa Wine Program

J Smoke Wallin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:15:20 +0000

I’m pleased to share with you our latest announcement from my Pelican Brands company. In 2009 the craft beer segment outpaced all others and grew on a volume basis over 5%. We have been looking for the right premium craft brands to fit into our growing brand platform. Napa Smith is the perfect fit! More [...]

Commentary on the US Beer Market 2009 results and 2010 thoughts…

J Smoke Wallin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:27:12 +0000

I’d thought I’d share some thoughts on the US beer market based on the 2009 results (starting to be published broadly) and my own insights calling on the distributors and retailers at Pelican Brands representing Singha Beer.

First, the 2009 beer market was characterized by tough trading conditions overall, consumers trading down from a number of [...]

Pelican Brands and Singha Beer – Now managing 50 U.S. States

J Smoke Wallin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:56:58 +0000

Our first major brand, Singha Beer from the Boon Rawd brewary is fantastic. I have been eating in Thai restaurants for 25 years and enjoyed Singha all along. The beer is perfectly matched to food. The brewery named us Brand Manager earlier in 2009 and in January 2010 we took over for all 50 U.S. [...]

Boon Rawd Appoints Pelican Brands As Exclusive U.S. Brand Manager for Singha Beer

J Smoke Wallin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:53:08 +0000

Singha Beer is The #1 Thai Beer Exported Around The World. Pelican Brands is Led by An Experienced Team from the Global Beverage Industry

BANGKOK, THAILAND, CARMEL, IN, October 26, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ — Boon Rawd Trading International announced today that it has appointed Pelican Brands as the exclusive brand manager for Singha Beer in the U.S. [...]

How are you going to sell that extra wine???? Spend the Week in NY, get involved in Wine 2.0 New York!

J Smoke Wallin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:58:29 +0000

If you are on the fence or thinking about leaving your backyard to go sell some wine, Wine 2.0 NY is the perfect event to plan it around. You can’t sell all that extra juice sitting in wine country. Get out with consumers and have some fun and SELL SOME WINE! Here is my suggestion [...]