It looks they are not publicly traded.
However, they did bring in a new CEO, Dominic Engels, in September of this year.
Mr. Dominic Engels has been Chief Executive Officer of Stone Brewing Co. since September 6, 2016. Mr. Engels has been President of POM Wonderful since June 2015. He served as Vice President of Global Marketing at Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds LLC. From 2011 to 2015, he oversaw sales, marketing and operations for Wonderful pistachios and almonds, plus POM Wonderful's pomegranate juice business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He also led the European division of another Wonderful product, Fiji Water. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Knowing this, I view these layoffs as a good thing. Engels is clearly an experienced executive. The original owners remain in leadership positions, but they've handed the reins to a guy with an elite business education and experience growing market share and capitalizing on it both within the US and internationally. True, the owners built this from the ground up, but they are not playing the same game they were when they started out selling beer out of the trunk of a car.
At the end of the day, the brewery is a business and their goal is to monetize the product and generate a profit. When you bring a guy in to shake things up and lead your company forward, he shakes things up. And that's what's happening here.
Watch for Stone to take some big steps forward - Wonderful Pistachios was one company in a group of pistachio growers a few years ago. Now they own a substantial share of the market and have excellent brand recognition. All of the icon pistachio ads we've become accustomed to came out while Engels was with that company. Similar things have happened with Pom Wonderful. I would anticipate a streamlined product line and excellent advertising to be arranged in short order.
I agree with posters above; Stone just isn't my favorite product. But it is very good. Their task is not in improving the product, but in convincing consumers it is worth the purchase. Because let's face it, the actual variance in quality between all craft breweries is very low. Stone needs us to believe it is, and they need to be cool again. They've established facilities across the country and in Germany, and now they're poised to start gobbling up the market. Engels is their man to lead the strike.