Tilray

Tilray Brands, Inc. is an American pharmaceutical, cannabis-lifestyle and consumer packaged goods company, incorporated in the United States, headquartered in New York City. Tilray also has operations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, with growing facilities in Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom. In December 2020, the company announced a merger with Aphria, and now operates under the Tilray name and its ticker symbol on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Tilray also owns several breweries and was ranked by the Brewers Association as the 4th largest craft beer company in the US in 2025.

Tilray Brands, Inc. is an American pharmaceutical, cannabis-lifestyle and consumer packaged goods company, incorporated in the United States, headquartered in New York City. Tilray also has operations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, with growing facilities in Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom. In December 2020, the company announced a merger with Aphria, and now operates under the Tilray name and its ticker symbol on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Tilray also owns several breweries and was ranked by the Brewers Association as the 4th largest craft beer company in the US in 2025. ==Merger with Aphria== On 15 December 2020, Aphria conducted a reverse acquisition of Tilray, creating the largest global cannabis company by revenue and geographic reach. The chief executive officer (CEO) of Aphria, Irwin D. Simon, stated that the merger strategy was to capture Tilray's business assets and public trading exposure in the United States and its free trade abilities in Europe, enabling potential for becoming a global operation. Irwin was named as CEO and chairman of the board for the merged company, and Tilray CEO, Brendan Kennedy, will be a member of the board of directors. The merged companies will keep Tilray's name and trade under the Tilray ticker symbol, TLRY, on the NASDAQ exchange. By combining assets, the new Tilray company will develop craft beer and cannabis-infused beverages in partnership with Anheuser-Busch InBev, and have branded hemp and cannabidiol products. According to one source, the world market potential for cannabis products is $94 billion by 2025. ==Brewery ownership== Tilray also owns several breweries: Montauk Brewing Company, Good Supply Beer, 10 Barrel Brewing Company, Square Mile Cider Company, Terrapin Beer Company, Truss Beverage Co and BrewDog breweries. Tilray's beer division ranked No. 9 on the Brewers Association's annual report of the US nation's top craft companies based on beer sales volume in 2022. ===Alpine Beer Company=== Founded in 1999¹ in Alpine, California, the Alpine Beer Company produced award-winning sour beers. The company would be acquired by the Green Flash Brewing Company in 2014 and continued existence as a brand. ===Blue Point Brewing Company=== Founded in a former ice factory in 1998¹ to fill the niche of a Long Island focused Microbrewery. The company's flagship "Toasted Lager" won a gold medal at the 2006 World Beer Cup in the American-Style Amber Lager category. The company distributed their beer to 19 states and Washington D.C. before being purchased by Anheuser-Busch InBev on February 5, 2014, for nearly $24 million. Citing financial shortfall in part due to the 2023 Bud Light boycott, Anheuser-Busch sold the brand to Tilray in August 2023. ===Breckenridge Brewery=== Founded in Breckenridge, Colorado in 1990¹ as the state's third craft brewery before moving most of their production to Denver in 1992. In 2010 the company merged with the Wynkoop Brewing Company and purchased the Phantom Canyon Brewing company to become the Breckenridge-Wynkoop LLC. In 2015 they moved to a new facility in Littleton, Colorado and was producing 70,000 barrels of beer per year. On December 22, 2015, Anheuser-Busch InBev announced its intent to purchase just Breckenridge Brewery from Breckenridge-Wynkoop LLC, splitting the companies with the purchase finalizing in 2016. Anheuser-Busch sold the brand to Tilray in August 2023. ===Green Flash Brewing Company=== Founded in 2002¹ in Vista, California before moving to San Diego in 2011. The company operated a 44,000 barrel per year facility in San Diego in 2011, and a 100,000 barrel per year facility in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 2013. By 2014 their beer was being sold in all 50 states, as well as internationally and they purchased the Alpine Beer Company. The company peaked in 2016 when it was the 37th largest producer of beer in the United States, afterwards the company began a rapid decline due to the rise of rival craft beer producers. In 2018 they cut distribution internationally and to 42 states and laid off 15% of their workforce and defaulted on their loans to construct the Virginia Beach facility. The company would be sold to a group of private investors by the end of the year, who would sell the company to Tilray in 2020. ===Redhook Ale Brewery=== Founded in Seattle in 1981¹, Redhook specializes in the production of India pale ales. A founding member of the Craft Brew Alliance, the company's distribution rights were bought by Cisco Brewers in 2018. In 2019 the Craft Brew Alliance, and its properties, were acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev with Redhook operating as a brand. Anheuser-Busch sold the brand to Tilray in August 2023. ===Shock Top=== A Belgian-Style, spiced Witbeer brand introduced as a seasonal beer by Anheuser-Busch in February 2006, however, the beer's popularity quickly grew and was used as a rival to Molson Coors' Blue Moon. The brand entered a decline following a failed rebranding effort in 2017 and, citing financial shortfall in part due to the 2023 Bud Light boycott, Anheuser-Busch sold the brand to Tilray in August 2023. ===SweetWater Brewing Company=== A craft brewery founded in 1997¹ by Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerney in Atlanta, Georgia. SweetWater's beers are unpasteurized and distribution is limited to select states. SweetWater would be acquired by Aphria In November 2020 for $300 million. Later, in December 2020, Aphria merged with Tilray bringing SweetWater under Tilray's ownership. ===Widmer Brothers Brewery=== Founded in 1984¹ in Portland, Oregon, the company primarily produced Hefeweizen. In 2007 Widmer and Redhook announced that they were going to merge to form the Craft Brewers Alliance, which was renamed to the Craft Brew Alliance in 2012. The goal of which was to offer smaller regional beers a national distribution network. In 2019 Widmer and the whole of the Craft Brew Alliance was bought by Anheuser-Busch InBev, with Widmer operating as a brand. Anheuser-Busch sold the brand to Tilray in August 2023. ==Food and drink== ===HiBall Energy=== HiBall Energy was founded in 2005¹ by Todd Berardi and was based out of San Francisco. They produced organic energy drinks and were purchased by Anheuser-Busch on July 20, 2017, in an effort to diversify into non-alcoholic beverages. Their products were low in sugar, produced with fair-trade ingredients, and were available at 14,000 locations prior to its acquisition by Anheuser-Busch. On May 19, 2023, Anheuser-Busch announced that they were discontinuing HiBall alongside their box wine brand Babe Wine, stating that they will be focusing on their "mega brands" instead. This came despite HiBall having a dedicated consumer fan-base that heavily protested the discontinuation. An Anheuser-Busch spokesmen stated that the discontinuation had nothing to do with the 2023 Bud Light boycott. Anheuser-Busch sold the HiBall brand to Tilray alongside seven of their beer brands in August 2023.

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