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International
Beverage boosts its management team with
two senior appointments - New Head of
Supply Chain Fiona Meldrum and Head of
Finance & Risk Laura Millar.
In whisky business news
International
Beverage has announced the arrival of
two new senior executives to the
business this week, with both set to
take up strategic roles in the global
spirits producer’s management team
during a period of ambitious growth.
Fiona Meldrum joins as Head of Supply
Chain
Fiona brings over 15 years’ experience
in supply chain leadership and logistics
to the role. After studying Business
Management at Edinburgh Napier
University, she began her career at The
Heineken Company, spending eight years
working across a number of global
export, customer service and logistics
projects, latterly as Head of Export –
Customer & Logistics.
She then moved to the beer and cider
specialists C&C Group where she spent
three years managing supply chain
planning across the company’s network of
own brand and contract products as Head
of Planning. After a brief tenure at
Hunter Boot Ltd as Global Logistics
Manager, Fiona moved to Chivas Brothers
as Head of Planning, where she led a
team of 30 people and helped to build
the company’s supply chain
transformation agenda, incorporating
bottling and material planning.
Laura Millar joins as Head of Finance
and Risk
Laura qualified as a Chartered
Accountant with Deloitte, where she went
on to spend six years working in Audit
across the company’s portfolio of
clients, gaining experience in a diverse
range of different industries.
In 2010 she joined the Japanese owned
global medical device manufacturer
Terumo Aortic – part of the Terumo Group
which is listed on the Tokyo Stock
Exchange. Here she has spent the past 13
years working from the company’s UK base
in Renfrewshire, during a time when the
division’s annual global turnover has
grown from c.£70m to over £200m. Having
started as Financial Accounting Manager,
she progressed through the business to
Financial Controller, Head of Finance &
Compliance and latterly to Global VP of
Finance Control & Compliance.
Both Fiona and Laura will be based at
the company’s Airdrie headquarters. IBHL
Managing Director Malcolm Leask welcomed
the years of experience and expertise
that both will bring to the company’s
growth agenda, commenting:
"International Beverage is delivering a
strong performance across our portfolio
of brands thanks to investment and
ambitious growth plans in over 85 global
markets. We still face many challenges
in these markets however, and we are
investing in bringing on board the very
best people to help us navigate our way
to success – not least in the fields of
finance and supply chain management.
Fiona and Laura are two exceptional
leaders in their respective disciplines,
and we welcome the talent and drive they
bring to our growing team. Their
involvement on priority projects such as
our path to fully compostable and
recyclable packaging, plus improving our
management information processes, will
be invaluable in the months ahead."
As the spirits arm of one of the world’s
top ten drinks producers ThaiBev,
International Beverage is responsible
for the global sales, marketing and
distribution of a multi-award-winning
portfolio of premium brands, including
single malt Scotch whiskies Old
Pulteney, Balblair, anCnoc and Speyburn;
the blended Scotch Hankey Bannister; and
Caorunn, the pioneering super premium
Scottish gin.
You will find International Beverage's
portfolio of Scotch whiskies available from specialist online whisky
shops such as
The Whisky Exchange,
The Whisky Shop,
Master of Malt
and
Hard To Find Whisky
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