BACARDI LIMITED
BACARDI LIMITED Caroline Basyn has been named the drink company’s Global Chief Information Officer, responsible for all Information Technology activities of Bacardi Limited globally including leading the company’s overall IT strategy and implementation. Previously Basyn was at Procter & Gamble where she was most recently Director of Trade Fund Management... Read More
DON SEBASTIANI & SONS
DON SEBASTIANI & SONS The family-owned wine company has promoted Mike Cekay to Executive Vice President/Global Sales Manager. In his expanded role, Mike will assume day to day responsibility for all Export, Transportation and Travel Channels. Cekay joined Don Sebastiani & Sons in 2OO9 as Senior Vice President, National Sales... Read More
OBITUARY: JESS JACKSON,
JESS JACKSON, 81 An icon of the wine world has passed away. Jess Stonestreet Jackson, the man who revolutionized the Chardonnay industry in the US during the early 198Os with his extraordinarily successful Kendall-Jackson winery and went on to become a pioneering architect of the burgeoning American wine industry, passed... Read More
Pernod Ricard USA
The drinks company has appointed Steve Chasen as Director/On-Premise Trade Marketing and BJ Vorderer as Director/Off-Premise Trade Marketing. Chasen joins the company from Southern Wines & Spirits, New York, where he helped lead the PRUSA-dedicated team within SWS Metro NY. Prior to that, he served as Director/Sales & Marketing for... Read More
Brown-Forman
George Garvin Brown IV is being promoted to Executive Vice President of the Louisville-based spirits company. Brown’s new role is to lead planning on strategic and operational matters related to the board and the Brown family, which controls a majority of the company’s voting shares. In addition to his new... Read More
Anheuser-Busch InBev
August Busch IV is stepping down as a director at Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, ending the Busch family’s formal involvement in the brewing company that bears its name. He was the chief executive of Anheuser-Busch Cos. when the Budweiser maker was acquired by InBev in 2OO8. Busch, who had sought to... Read More
PERNOD RICARD USA
Ed Merklen has been named General Manager-East Division Sales. Prior to joining Pernod Ricard, Merklen worked for the past twelve years at the Coca-Cola Company where he held a series of executive sales roles in the bottling, divisional and national chain groups. In his most recent position as VP of... Read More
DIAGEO
Oliver Loomes has been appointed as Global Brand Director for Guinness. Prior to this, Loomes was the Marketing and Innovation Director for Diageo Ireland. Oliver has been with Diageo for 12 years and was previously Head of Marketing on Spirits and Lagers in Ireland.
OBITUARY: PATTY BOGLE, 59
The matriarch of Bogle Vineyards in Clarksburg, California, died in February due to complications of leukemia. Patty Bogle and her late-husband Chris built Bogle Vineyards from 18 acres of grapes to a regional wine powerhouse. Wine Business Monthly recently ranked Bogle as the country’s 14th largest winery. The Bogles first... Read More
SIDNEY FRANK IMPORTING COMPANY
Todd Richman has been named Corporate Mixologist, a newly created position. Richman will lead the bartender loyalty programs and develop drink strategies for the Sidney Frank portfolio. He has over seven years experience working in the food and spirits industry and most recently comes from Frederick Wildman and Sons. An... Read More