• 👩🏻‍💻 Danelle Kosmal to Join 3 Tier Beverages
• 🧑‍⚖️ FTC Seeks Enforcement of Investigative Demand Against Total Wine

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 Nearly three months after announcing her departure from the Beer Institute (BI), former VP of research Danelle Kosmal will join 3 Tier Beverages as a consultant. 

Kosmal and her family are moving to Japan in December for a two- to three-year stay while her husband works with the Office of Naval Research Global in Tokyo. 

The work she’ll do with 3 Tier harkens to her tenure at NIQ, where she spent more than a decade and her most recent title was VP of bev-alc practice, but with a more boutique feel, she told Brewbound.

Brewbound Insiders can read more about Kosmal's move and three more 3 Tier hires here.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and national bev-alc retailer Total Wine & More are at odds over the chain’s participation in the government agency’s investigation of multi-state wine and spirits wholesaler Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits.

Last week, the FTC petitioned the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia to enforce a civil investigative demand (CID) against Total Wine, which it said the retailer “has failed to comply with” “for more than four months,” according to a press release.

Brewbound Insiders can read more about the FTC’s CID here and about the agency’s investigation into Southern Glazer’s here.

Insiders are reading more about Danelle Kosmal’s new role at 3 Tier Beverages, including comments from Kosmal on the move. 

Insiders are also:

• Checking out Athletic Brewing’s latest restaurant chain deal;
• Reading about which rockstar is getting into craft beer; 
• Learning of a renewed marketing partnership between Bud Light and a major athletic institution;
• Diving into initial data from Circana’s monthly beer report;
• And much more!

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Crowns & Hops founders Beny Ashburn and Teo Hunter will kick off the second day of Brewbound Live on December 7, sharing their journey to opening a brewery in Inglewood, California.

Following Ashburn and Hunter’s opening remarks on Day 2, they will be joined on stage by National Black Brewers Association (NB2A) executive director Kevin Asato to share the continuity of their respective missions, how they’re gaining traction and making an impact.

The NB2A launched earlier this year with a mission to advocate for African-American brewers and brewery owners, who account for less than 1% of craft breweries in the U.S.

Crowns & Hops runs the 8 Trill Pils development fund, which creates opportunities for Black-owned craft beer brands and demonstrates racial equality’s benefits and fiscal impacts.

Ashburn, Hunter and Asato join a list of industry leaders who will take part in Brewbound Live December 6 + 7 at the Marina Del Rey Marriott Hotel (4100 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, CA). Tickets are available now.

The Brewbound Live business conference returns December 6-7 in Marina del Rey. Additional speakers and conversations to be announced in the coming weeks. 

Registration and the discounted room block is now open. Find out more details here.