Asahi Beverages has announced its new CEO today, while Constellation Brands is also welcoming new faces to top jobs.
Asahi Beverages has announced its new CEO today, while Constellation Brands is also welcoming new faces to top jobs.
Asahi Group Holdings has announced the appointment of Amanda Sellers as the new Group CEO of Asahi Beverages, its Oceania business.
Sellers has been acting as interim Group CEO since June.
Sellers joined Asahi Beverages almost 5 years ago as the Group Chief Financial Officer. She has been in the beverages industry for over 20 years, during which time she also held senior roles at Treasury Wines, including CFO Asia and Europe, and before that CFO Australia and NZ.
Sellers becomes the first female CEO of a regional headquarters within the Asahi Group.
“It’s a tremendous honor to be entrusted with the leadership of Asahi Beverages at a key time for our business as we continue to invest in and grow our operations across Australia and New Zealand,” she said.
“Asahi Beverages continued success in Oceania lies not just in our great brands, like VB, Asahi Super Dry, Schweppes, Long White, Cool Ridge and Allpress Espresso coffee, but our team’s passion and ability to innovate and meet our consumers’ needs in a rapidly evolving beverages market.”
“As interim Group CEO over the past 6 months I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know our customers and suppliers much better. I’m confident that through these valued partnerships, and the plans we’ve developed together, we’ll grow our businesses and deliver even more for our consumers.”
Constellation Brands, Inc. has announced a set of new leadership appointments in its beer division.
Mallika Monteiro has assumed expanded responsibility for beer marketing while continuing to lead the company’s innovation, consumer insights, and digital functions as EVP, Chief Growth & Digital Officer and Managing Director, Beer Brands. Monteiro joined Constellation in 2016, and has been focused on accelerating Constellation’s innovation capabilities.
Matt Lindsay has been appointed SVP, Chief Marketing Officer – Beer Division. In this new role, Lindsay is responsible for leading the company’s beer marketing functions including Brand Marketing; Field, Lifestyle & Experiential Marketing; Trade Marketing; and Marketing Enablement. He joined Constellation in 2022 as SVP, Brand Marketing.
Greg Gallagher has been appointed SVP, Brand Marketing, assuming responsibility for all brand marketing efforts related to Constellation’s beer portfolio. He was formerly VP, Brand Marketing for Modelo.
Rene Ramos has been appointed SVP, Brand Activation with responsibility for Field, Lifestyle & Experiential Marketing, as well as Trade Marketing. Ramos joined Constellation in 2013.
John Kester has been appointed SVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer – Beer, responsible for leading the company’s integrated end-to-end supply chain organization. Kester joined Constellation in 2014, and boasts 30 years of beer industry experience across all supply chain operations in different geographies.
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The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) has promoted Scott Breen to senior vice president, effective January 2, 2024.
Breen – described by the US institute as a strong sustainability thought leader and communicator – will lead the industry’s sustainability policy, infrastructure and communications efforts as its senior vice president.
The CMI is the trade association of the metal and composite can manufacturing industry and its suppliers.
Breen started with CMI in July 2019 and has facilitated several initiatives to advance the metal can industry’s sustainability performance. CMI champions the aluminum can as already being the most recycled beverage package in the world with the highest average recycled content, but the industry is investing in Breen to improving those key performance indicators for the US market.
“Scott has elevated the metal can industry’s sustainability profile throughout the value chain,” said CMI Chairman Thomas Fischer, Crown Holdings vice president of investor relations and corporate affairs. “This promotion will increase the significant contribution he makes to our industry and our continued commitment to solidify the metal can as the superior sustainable package.”
Prior to joining CMI, Breen was the associate manager of the sustainability and circular economy program at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. He is also the creator and co-host of the Sustainability Defined podcast. Breen began his career as an attorney-advisor at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Breen graduated magna cum laude from his undergraduate program, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy from Georgetown University, and his joint graduate program, a Juris Doctor and Master of Public Affairs and Social Entrepreneurship Certificate from Indiana University.
SmaK Plastics, a US provider of rotationally molded plastic solutions and developer of Flextank craft beverage containers and U.S. Products professional extractors, has added Jamie Long as its new Vice President of Sales.
Long will be responsible for all sales and channel development for the Smak Plastics, Flextank, U.S. Products, RotoEdge Pro, Fish Box, and Columbia Mfg. product lines.
Before joining SmaK Plastics, Long served as Vice President of Sales at the Broaster Company, where he successfully added 573 new Trademark locations and an additional $33m in revenue. He also drove record growth of $7.5m across the Broaster Distributor Network in 2022.
Previously, Long was Vice President of Business Development for PFS Brands. Prior to this, he was Vice President and Director of Sales Operations at Caster Depot.
Long earned his Bachelor of Arts from Lewis and Clark State College, in Lewiston, Idaho.
The Portman Group has appointed Rachel Childs as the new Chair of the Independent Complaints Panel (ICP).
The Portman Group is the UK alcohol industry’s self-regulator: counting Asahi, Bacardi, Brown-Forman, Diageo and Heineken among its members.
The Independent Complaints Panel is tasked with assessing complaints brought forward on the naming, packaging, promotion and sponsorship of alcoholic drinks, based on the Portman Group’s Code of Praxtice.
Childs has been a serving member for the last seven years. She was appointed as the Panel’s first Deputy Chair in January 2022 and took over as interim Chair of the Panel in September 2023.
Childs is a former headteacher with a varied career spanning over ten years in regulation.
She served on the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Council between 2011 and 2019, and currently sits on the Advertising Advisory Committee, providing consumer input into the development of the CAP and BCAP codes.
Rachel also works for several regulators across a variety of industries. She is a Fitness to Practise Committee Panel Chair at the Nursing and Midwifery Council and a Lay Member of the Professional Conduct Committee at the Architects Registration Board. She also sits as a Chair and Panellist for the Independent Appeals Panel assessing Third Stage Penalty Fares Appeals.
After a successful term, Nicola Williams stepped down as chair of the panel in September 2023 to focus on her wider portfolio of work as a part-time Crown Court Judge and Penguin published author.