CARROLLTON, Texas, April 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Â Nothings says women s empowerment like a powerhouse, woman-owned alcohol brand joining forces with a female race car driver. This is precisely the move BuzzBallz, LLC/Southern Champion made by sponsoring Taylor Reimer â University of Oklahoma student by day, professional midget car racer at night.
A midget car is a 900-pound race car with a four-cylinder engine and 300-400 horsepower.
Bonded by their presence in male-dominated spaces, both BuzzBallz, LLC/Southern Champion and Reimer instantly agreed that this was the perfect partnership. Both Merrilee Kick, founder of BuzzBallz, and Reimer have firsthand experience with the intimidation and pressure that comes with proving onlookers that they deserve to be in the boy s club.
Girl Power Is Horsepower: Woman-Owned Cocktail Brand, BuzzBallz, Partners with Female Midget Car Racer, Taylor Reimer
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Uptown Wine Cocktails Voted Product of the Year 2021
The Largest Consumer Survey of Product Innovation Awards Uptown Wine Cocktails As Spiked Beverage Winner
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Uptown Wine Cocktails, a premium, shareable, ready-to-drink cocktail, has been named
Product of the Year for 2021. Product of the Year is the largest consumer-voted award for product innovation, chosen by 40,000 American shoppers in a national survey conducted by
Kantar, a global leader in consumer research. Uptown Wine Cocktails has been awarded the top honors as the most innovative product in Spiked Beverages.
BuzzBallz, LLC/Southern Champion
This is a hallmark accomplishment, a true testament to the brand s devotion to quality, as this award was acquired less than a year after its launch. In April 2020, the brand launched with six flavors Mango Margarita, Strawberry Margarita, Margarita, Lemon Tea, Ruby Red Grapefruit and Chocolatini with limited distribution. Within months, t
Merrilee Kick is Creating a Big Buzz
How an ex-Plano high school teacher built a quirky libations brand into a $70 million global enterprise.
By Brandon J. Call
Published in
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December
2020
Photography by Sean Berry | The Nest Images Courtesy of BuzzBallz/Southern Champion
On a hot Texas afternoon in the mid-2000s, then-Plano West Senior High School teacher Merrilee Kick was sitting by her pool grading papers when she had a hankering for an alcoholic beverage. How cool would it be, she thought, to sip a cocktail out of a plastic container so she wouldn’t have to worry about breaking a glass bottle? Kick didn’t want to miss out on any pool time, either, so the concoction needed to come pre-mixed and ready-to-drink. She also wanted a beverage that wouldn’t fill her up or make her feel bloated and, most important, it needed to be strong enough to get her buzzed.