According to Black Enterprise Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey announced that its sales exceeded $100 million through October 2022, with an on-track forecast to more than double that total by the end of 2023.
The company was founded by its CEO Fawn Weaver in 2017. We are just taking a moment to take in all of this greatness! You read that correctly the CEO is a woman! She was then joined by Chief Business Officer Katharine Jerkens and, shortly after, Victoria Eady Butler, the great-great-granddaughter of the company’s namesake, Nearest Green.
In less than two years since its founding, Weaver and her all-female executive team have expanded the brand to all 50 states and, within its first three years of operation! Let’s not forget to mention all the wins including more than 160 whiskey awards! Yesssssssssss this is what we love to see!
Last year, Uncle Nearest announced it had become the best-selling Black American-founded, owned, and led spirit brand in U.S. history!
What a dream to watch become a reality, one that will inspire business besties all over the world to be able to work with and for one another.
