CHICO, Calif. — Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s CanDo co-packing platform is expanding its canning and beverage manufacturing capabilities for wineries, wine brands, and producers developing wine-based beverages. CanDo currently works with and has manufacturing experience supporting some of the nation’s largest wine producers, bringing Sierra Nevada’s decades of large-scale beverage manufacturing expertise to an increasingly diverse range of wine products and package formats. Strategically located in Chico, California, between major wine-producing regions in California, Oregon, and Washington, CanDo offers West Coast wine producers access to a large-scale manufacturing platform with the infrastructure to support both traditional canned wine and more complex wine-based products. From straightforward canned wine to wine-based cocktails, spritzes, and ready-to-drink products, CanDo can support programs that extend well beyond simply filling finished wine into a can. Capabilities include: High

Salary benchmarking is essential for accurately compiling competitive compensation structures in highly regulated industries, such as alcohol and beverage. Utilizing compensation benchmarking data can significantly enhance this process. It informs employee compensation, supports pay transparency, and helps organizations attract and retain talent in tight labor markets. For employers operating in healthcare, construction, cannabis, casinos, and other compliance‑heavy environments, salary benchmarking serves as a north star for human resource teams, guiding fair pay practices, ensuring regulatory alignment, and enabling data‑driven decisions. This blog walks through how salary benchmarking works in regulated environments, what makes it different, and how to build a defensible, repeatable process that holds up under scrutiny. Salary Benchmarking Defined for Regulated Industry Employers At its core, salary benchmarking is the process of comparing internal compensation against external mar

The acquisition strengthens the company’s position in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, beauty, personal care, home care, and beverage segments. Berlin Packaging, the world’s largest Hybrid Packaging Supplier®, specializing in the supply of glass, plastic and metal packaging and closures, announces the acquisition of BlueSky, a UK-based company specializing in packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, beauty, personal care, home care, and beverage markets. Headquartered in Grimsby, UK, BlueSky is a family-owned supplier of plastic, metal, and glass packaging solutions, including specialized containers, closures, and dispensing systems that meet customers’ unique needs and requirements. The company serves small and medium-sized customers across the UK with a fast, simple and consultative approach to service, providing the continuity and confidence needed to support growth. Bluesky’s solutions offering is further enhanced by value-added services such as decoration and p

Santa Rosa, CA, Aug. 18, 2026 - Strategic Beverage Services, a Santa Rosa, California-based beverage processing company, has acquired the U.S. operations of BevZero, a HACCP- and organic-certified provider of dealcoholization and beverage processing services. The acquisition makes the combined company the largest dealcoholization service provider in the United States. Key Facts Acquirer: Strategic Beverage Services (headquartered in Santa Rosa, California) Acquired company: BevZero's U.S. operations ("BevZero-US") Industries served: Wineries, distilleries, cider producers, and functional beverage producers Market driver: Growing U.S. demand for low- and no-alcohol beverages Why It Matters Demand for low- and no-alcohol beverages is accelerating in the United States. This acquisition expands Strategic Beverage Services' capacity and geographic footprint to meet that demand, combining its existing operations with BevZero-US's technology, personnel, and industry track record. Leadersh

Industry leaders join forces to support winery operators with the people, processes, and technology needed to attract, retain, and empower hospitality talent Denver , Aug. 4, 2026 - Würk, the leading human capital management (HCM) company serving the cannabis and beverage alcohol industries, announced today a strategic partnership with OrderPort, the wine industry's leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and point-of-sale platform. Through the partnership, the two organizations will collaborate to help wineries strengthen workforce operations, improve employee retention, and create exceptional guest experiences.   In today's competitive winery landscape, operators face increasing pressure to recruit and retain quality talent while delivering memorable tasting room experiences that drive customer loyalty. Würk and OrderPort share a common belief that successful hospitality businesses are built on strong people, efficient processes, and technology that removes adm

Running a winery tasting room is one of the most deceptively complex jobs in hospitality. On the surface, it looks like pouring wine and telling stories. In practice, it's managing a rotating cast of part-time staff, navigating generational shifts in how guests want to engage, and delivering a flawless experience every time, to every visitor, while keeping the business humming behind the scenes. It's a challenge that sits squarely at the intersection of people, process, and technology. And it's exactly the kind of challenge that Würk and OrderPort were built to help solve. Würk’s payroll and HR platform is purpose-built for compliance-heavy, people-first industries, helping operators pay and manage their workforce without drowning in administrative complexity. OrderPort is the wine industry's leading ERP and point-of-sale solution, designed to make running a winery's operations, wine club, and tasting

With rising costs and complex supply chain, companies in the food and beverage (F&B) industry may find themselves at a disadvantage if they lose cost visibility and if the accounting system and operational controls aren’t tightly aligned. Operating in a highly-competitive market and understanding your company’s cost structure is not just about financial reporting—it’s a strategic advantage. Explore common cost accounting challenges that face the F&B industry and some practical ways to address them. Communicating and understanding that product costing is not just an accounting issue but rather a responsibility of every department is imperative for the company to be successful. 1. Volatile Raw Material Prices Agricultural products like wheat, dairy, sugar, proteins, coffee beans, and cocoa can be highly volatile due to various factors that impact their price which can include climate conditions, regulatory changes, geopolitical situations, and currency fluctuations. If not accoun

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Corksy and Enolytics Launch Integration to Help Wineries Turn Data Into Smarter Growth Decisions Connecting winery commerce and customer data with powerful analytics across DTC, wine club, and inventory performance Irvine, CA (May 6, 2026) — Corksy, the modern direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform for wineries, today announced its integration with Enolytics is now live for all mutual customers. The integration connects Corksy’s commerce and customer data directly into Enolytics’ analytics platform, giving wineries a clearer, faster way to understand performance and make more informed decisions. As wineries continue to invest in DTC, the challenge isn’t access to data—it’s making sense of it. This integration brings together day-to-day operational data from Corksy with Enolytics’ industry-leading data analytics, helping teams move from reports to real insights without added complexity. “At Enolytics, our goal has always been to help wineries turn data into decisions,”

The surge in no- and low-alcohol wines is creating exciting opportunities for wineries to reach new consumers. But as many producers are discovering, removing alcohol changes more than just the label. It fundamentally shifts how these wines behave from a food safety standpoint. In traditional wine, alcohol plays a major role in suppressing microbial growth. Once that protection is reduced or eliminated, the product begins to behave more like a ready-to-drink beverage. This means that microorganisms, including food-borne pathogens such as norovirus, Listeria monocytogenes, and E. coli, are more likely to survive and grow if proper controls are not in place. Many winemakers are surprised to learn that their existing cleaning and sanitation programs may no longer be sufficient. Higher residual sugar levels, additional processing steps like dealcoholization and blending, and increased handling during filling all create new opportunities for contamination. Controls that worked well for trad

The surge in no- and low-alcohol wines is creating exciting opportunities for wineries to reach new consumers. But as many producers are discovering, removing alcohol changes more than just the label. It fundamentally shifts how these wines behave from a food safety standpoint. In traditional wine, alcohol plays a major role in suppressing microbial growth. Once that protection is reduced or eliminated, the product begins to behave more like a ready-to-drink beverage. This means that microorganisms, including food-borne pathogens such as norovirus, Listeria monocytogenes, and E. coli, are more likely to survive and grow if proper controls are not in place. Many winemakers are surprised to learn that their existing cleaning and sanitation programs may no longer be sufficient. Higher residual sugar levels, additional processing steps like dealcoholization and blending, and increased handling during filling all create new opportunities for contamination. Controls that worked well for trad