BOSTON BEER UPDATES 2024 FINANCIAL GUIDANCE TO REFLECT SUPPLIER CONTRACT AMENDMENT

BOSTON, Dec. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As part of its ongoing initiatives to optimize its supply chain, The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (NYSE: SAM), today announced an amendment and restatement in its entirety of an existing production agreement with a third-party supplier, Rauch North America Inc (‘Rauch’). This amendment adjusts the existing production agreement to better match the Company’s future capacity requirements and results in increased production flexibility and more favorable termination rights to the company in exchange for a $26 million cash payment to Rauch on or before December 23, 2024.