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Uncle Nearest CEO Fawn Weaver Opens Up About How Naysayers Reacted To Her Decision To Buy A $50M Distillery

Uncle Nearest CEO and Founder Fawn Weaver will consistently place her trust in the excellence of the premium whiskey brand.

Samantha Dorisca

Nov 13, 2023

Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey CEO Fawn Weaver Purchases A Bank Alongside Her Husband

Fawn Weaver may be on a mission to create the blueprint for how to build generational wealth.

Samantha Dorisca

Jan 4, 2023

Black-Owned Cocktail Company Receives $5M Investment From Fellow BIPOC-Owned Company Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey

In an effort to diversify the cocktail sector, Hella Cocktail Co. has received $5 million in funding. Hella Cocktail Co.

Samantha Dorisca

Jun 14, 2022

Uncle Nearest Launches $50M Venture Fund To Invest In Minority-Owned Spirit Brands

Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey , the fastest-growing and best-selling Black-owned spirit brand in all of U.S. history, has just announced a multi-million dollar initiative to give back to its fellow spirits brands. According to a press release, the award-winning whiskey brand has launched a $50 million venture fund designed specifically to invest in rapidly growing, minority-founded and owned spirit brands. The announcement was deliberately timed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the destruction done to Black Wall Street in Tulsa, OK. “On June 1, 1921, an entire community of wealthy and successful African Americans was wiped out in a matter of hours. We are talking about 35 square blocks known as Black Wall Street,” Uncle Nearest founder/ CEO Fawn Weaver said in a statement. “As an African American, learning about that history broke my heart because we, as a people, were really onto something in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We were lifting one another up and creating wealth within our own...

Njera Perkins

Jun 2, 2021

Uncle Nearest CEO Fawn Weaver is Creating A Pipeline For More Blacks to Enter the Whiskey Industry

Fawn Weaver is committed. As the first Black woman to lead the world’s first major spirits brand on record to commemorate an African-American, she has dedicated resources to bringing more people of color into the industry. In June, the Jack Daniel’s Distillery and the Nearest Green Distillery announced the Nearest & Jack Advancement Initiative, an accelerated apprenticeship program designed to promote diversity and Black leadership in the American whiskey industry . Weaver is also working with the two Tennessee distilleries to create the Nearest Green School of Distilling, whose STEM-based curriculum is being developed in partnership with Motlow State Community College. Weaver says the diversity problem results from many things, including representation, qualifications, and cultural beliefs. But while other spirits brands tap celebrity ambassadors to generate in-house brand interest, Weaver doesn’t believe that’s the answer to increasing diversity. “That’s not what we need. What we...

Niki McGloster

Aug 31, 2020

Jack Daniel's and Uncle Nearest Take Action to Give Blacks a Shot in the Whiskey Industry

Last week, the Jack Daniel’s Distillery and the Nearest Green Distillery announced the Nearest & Jack Advancement Initiative, a program designed to promote diversity and Black leadership in the American whiskey industry . According to PRNewswire , the joint initiative, between the two Tennessee distilleries, will give $5 million combined toward providing expertise and resources to Blacks entering the spirits industry as entrepreneurs. The money will be allocated to create the Nearest Green School of Distilling, whose STEM-based curriculum is being developed in partnership with Motlow State Community College. In addition, the pledge will offer apprenticeships specifically to African-Americans already in the whiskey industry via the Leadership Acceleration Program (LAP) and establish the Business Incubation Program (BIP), which will provide access to top marketing firms, branding executives, expanded distribution networks, plus other assets and opportunities to grow their spirits...

Niki McGloster

Jun 15, 2020