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Corona seltzer shortage3/1/2024 This is common for all our Bud, Bud Light, and Busch brands/packages.” “We will be down to zero days of inventory for 2-3 days then we will get a straight load that will build us back to approximately 10 days. can shortages, but they are more used to that. The same distributor is also seeing A-B 16 oz. They are stressing that we use the ALNR and draught for venues and special events.” aluminum bottles and draft until they can get supply normalized. In the meantime they are suggesting that we leverage 12 oz. A-B is saying glass supply issues should resolve itself after Labor Day. NRs, specifically: “With the production problems at the glass supplier, increased volume from on-premise reopening, and loss of inventory build due to glass supplier issues, we are down to 2-3 days of inventory across all A-B brands. Said another distributor, about their 12 oz. Another, who characterized bottles as “very problematic,” has been told the issue is most pronounced in the Midwest due to issues at the plant supplying St. They were told that such issues stem from the cyber security attack, as well as a glass furnace outage. … We will get very small allocations periodically but nothing consistent.” “Our DOI has been strained for several weeks but the consistent OOS situation has been the past couple weeks. However, the bottle shortage, which is widespread, is going to last throughout the summer.” (And that could lead to more can shortages as consumers switch).Īnother wholesaler characterized the bottle situation as “awful” - though he noted that while their large pack can supply was still strained, that inventory is better than it was a couple of months ago.Īs for those bottles: “Bud Light, Ultra and Budweiser are essentially out of stock for the past two weeks” for this wholesaler. As one distrib told BBD: “…We are told that our can supply will be better this summer than it was last summer, although still tight. In fact, we hear that A-B’s VP Business and Wholesaler Development Bob Tallett and sales chief Brendan Whitworth shared a video broadcast on just such issues with distributors on Monday. But now, many A-B distributors are flagging bottle supply as a potential issue for the whole summer. Indeed, we’d reported on the Ardagh incident impacting supply last month. The confluence of that cyberattack on a major bottle supplier of theirs, Ardagh, met with increased volume demand from the on-premise reopening, seems to be causing problems with A-B glass bottles. But where A-B had seemed to do better than competitors at last year’s supply woes, now they seem to be at the eye of a more recent storm. “We also see product shortages with our competitors, including Molson Coors and Corona beer products,” the source added. Of course, A-B is far from alone in the supply crunch boat. “These product shortages, along with staffing shortages at retail to fill the shelves, must be impacting the scan data you referred to in this morning’s article.” They continued: “I am not surprised in the strong numbers for seltzer, but … ABI is having significant supply problems, especially our high volume packages – Mich Ultra 24 pack cans, Busch Light 30 packs and 12 packs, Bud Light 24 pack cans,” per source, who says they have “lost tens of thousands of cases of volume YTD due to daily allocations to our sales and delivery teams of some of our higher volume packages. “Unfortunately the bottle shortage is straining our can supply” as consumers switch around. “First it was can shortage and now bottle shortage,” the distributor wrote. (You will recall we detailed Nielsen data on “beyond beer” supremacy for the Memorial Day holiday, and flaccid trends for pretty much any other bev alc.) Yesterday morning’s BBD was met with the following response from a distributor reader.
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