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Uncle Nearest Gets An Optimistic Report Under Receivership: ‘The Company Has Significant Value And Can Be Reorganized’

Weeks into a court-supervised receivership, Uncle Nearest — the whiskey brand founded to honor the legacy of Nearest Green — is showing signs of stabilization. In a recent filing, court-appointed ...
Tennessean

Judge orders receiver to take over Uncle Nearest, TN whiskey brand facing $108M lawsuit

For the eight years it has been on liquor store shelves, Uncle Nearest has capitalized on the personal brand of its founder and CEO Fawn Weaver, who created the company to honor the legacy of the ...
The Grio

Who is Fawn Weaver? The Black woman CEO fighting to keep Uncle Nearest

The fate of the billion-dollar whiskey brand Uncle Nearest changed course last week when a Tennessee judge ruled in favor of one of its lenders, Farm Credit Mid America, ordering that it should be ...
The Grio

How Fawn Weaver built Uncle Nearest into a $1.1 billion dollar spirits brand — and why she’s not selling

On the latest episode of Masters of the Game, TheGrio’s Natasha S. Alford sits down with Fawn Weaver, the trailblazing founder and CEO behind Uncle Nearest, the fastest-growing Black-owned spirits ...