Reed's Inc (NASDAQ: REED) is a craft beverage company that develops, markets, and sells ginger-based beers, ales, and specialty sodas under the Reed's and Virgil's brand families. Revenue comes from selling finished beverages to distributors and retailers, with gross billing measured as invoiced amounts to those channels before promotional allowances and trade deductions. The company operates as a smaller reporting company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, leasing 5,154 square feet of office space as of the 10-K filed March 25, 2026. Core brands as of FY2025 include Reed's Craft Ginger Beer, Reed's Real Ginger Ale (Full Sugar and Zero Sugar), Reed's RTD Classic Mule (7% ABV) and Hard Ginger Ale (5% ABV), a multi-functional soda line launched in 2025, Virgil's Handcrafted Sodas, Virgil's Zero Sugar Sodas, and Flying Cauldron butterscotch beer. The company competes against international beverage companies as well as regional, local, private label, and direct-to-consumer micro-brand producers, and carries a Senior Secured Facility with Whitebox Advisors, LLC as a key creditor, reflecting a debt-dependent capital structure.
Reed's Craft Ginger Beer (Original, Extra, Strongest; cane sugar, honey-pineapple, and Zero Sugar variants); Reed's Real Ginger Ale (Full Sugar and Zero Sugar, launched 2020); Reed's RTD Classic Mule (7% ABV, launched 2021); Reed's RTD Hard Ginger Ale (5% ABV, launched 2021); Reed's multi-functional soda line with adaptogen mushroom extracts and prebiotic fiber (Lemongrass Ginger, Berry Bubbly, Strawberry Vanilla, Root Beer, launched 2025); Virgil's Handcrafted Sodas (Root Beer, Vanilla Cream, Black Cherry, Orange Cream, Cola); Virgil's Zero Sugar Sodas (same flavors, stevia-sweetened); Flying Cauldron butterscotch beer. All products are GMO-free and free of artificial preservatives.
Transactional sales of finished craft beverages to distributors and retailers. Management tracks gross billing (invoiced amounts before trade allowances and promotional deductions) as the primary operating performance indicator, per the FY2025 10-K.
Distributors and retailers are the direct customers. End consumers targeted are buyers of premium, natural, and craft soft drinks and ready-to-drink alcohol beverages. The filing does not disclose customer concentration percentages or specific retail chain relationships.
United States is the primary market. The filing references international expansion as a potential future use of capital but does not disclose current international revenue or operations (FY2025 10-K).
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