Worldwide Beverage boosts administration workforce with two senior appointments
New Head of Provide Chain and Head of Finance & Threat confirmed
Worldwide Beverage has introduced the arrival of two new senior executives to the enterprise this week, with each set to take up strategic roles within the world spirits producer’s administration workforce throughout a interval of formidable development.
Fiona Meldrum joins as Head of Provide Chain
Fiona brings over 15 years’ expertise in provide chain management and logistics to the function. After finding out Enterprise Administration at Edinburgh Napier College, she started her profession at The Heineken Firm, spending eight years working throughout a lot of world export, customer support and logistics tasks, latterly as Head of Export – Buyer & Logistics.
She then moved to the beer and cider specialists C&C Group the place she spent three years managing provide chain planning throughout the corporate’s community of personal model and contract merchandise as Head of Planning. After a quick tenure at Hunter Boot Ltd as International Logistics Supervisor, Fiona moved to Chivas Brothers as Head of Planning, the place she led a workforce of 30 folks and helped to construct the corporate’s provide chain transformation agenda, incorporating bottling and materials planning.
Laura Millar joins as Head of Finance and Threat
Laura certified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte, the place she went on to spend six years working in Audit throughout the corporate’s portfolio of shoppers, gaining expertise in a various vary of various industries.
In 2010 she joined the Japanese owned world medical system producer Terumo Aortic – a part of the Terumo Group which is listed on the Tokyo Inventory Trade. Right here she has spent the previous 13 years working from the corporate’s UK base in Renfrewshire, throughout a time when the division’s annual world turnover has grown from c.£70m to over £200m. Having began as Monetary Accounting Supervisor, she progressed by the enterprise to Monetary Controller, Head of Finance & Compliance and latterly to International VP of Finance Management & Compliance.
Each Fiona and Laura shall be based mostly on the firm’s Airdrie headquarters. IBHL Managing Director Malcolm Leask welcomed the years of expertise and experience that each will deliver to the corporate’s development agenda, commenting:
‘Worldwide Beverage is delivering a robust efficiency throughout our portfolio of manufacturers due to funding and impressive development plans in over 85 world markets. We nonetheless face many challenges in these markets nevertheless, and we’re investing in bringing on board the perfect folks to assist us navigate our option to success – not least within the fields of finance and provide chain administration. Fiona and Laura are two distinctive leaders of their respective disciplines, and we welcome the expertise and drive they convey to our rising workforce. Their involvement on precedence tasks reminiscent of our path to totally compostable and recyclable packaging, plus bettering our administration info processes, shall be invaluable within the months forward.’
Because the spirits arm of one of many world’s high ten drinks producers ThaiBev, Worldwide Beverage is accountable for the worldwide gross sales, advertising and marketing and distribution of a multi-award-winning portfolio of premium manufacturers, together with single malt Scotch whiskies Outdated Pulteney, Balblair, anCnoc and Speyburn; the blended Scotch Hankey Bannister.
ABOUT INTERNATIONAL BEVERAGE
Worldwide Beverage is among the drinks business’s most dynamic world companies. Established in 2006 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thaibev, the corporate operates as its worldwide enterprise arm, specialising within the growth of premium native spirits for the worldwide market. Its success is constructed on a robust understanding of native cultures and markets inside a worldwide enterprise community. Primarily based in Hong Kong with regional workplaces in Singapore, Malaysia, the USA and UK, the corporate is accountable for the gross sales, advertising and marketing and distribution of a portfolio of premium manufacturers in over 85 markets. These manufacturers are constructed on character, craftsmanship and high quality, led by a variety of award-winning Scotch whiskies and an array of vibrant spirits.
