Drinks News August 2018

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Why the Australian Drinks Awards expanded its Supplier category

The Drinks Association has joined with Advantage Australia to create two new Supplier awards - Most Improved Supplier and Supply Chain Partnership. We talk to Steve Andrews for the lowdown on why the category was expanded.

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Winning Supplier of the Year at The Australian Drinks Awards has always been a huge accolade.

This year, two additional supplier awards have been added to the ceremony: Most Improved Supplier and Supply Chain Partnership. Like Supplier of the Year, the winners will be determined via Advantage Australia’s benchmark surveys of on and off-premise retailers. Advantage Australia’s Steve Andrews gives the lowdown.

How credible is the Australian Drinks Awards judging process?

The information sourced to support the awards comes from Advantage’s in depth research across all major retailers and wholesalers in the Liquor Industry. Our research exceeds the standard of statistical rigour applied by research companies to quantitative results.

Why were two new Awards – Most Improved Supplier and Supply Chain Partnership – introduced to the ADAs? The Most Improved Supplier Award was introduced to recognise suppliers who may not have the resource capacity to exceed the leading companies in overall engagement, but who have successfully set and executed a plan of improvement and have been recognised by retailers for improving their professionalism and delivery across the entirety of their commercial relationship.

We have a commitment to not release any results until the 13th, so pretty easy really. Because there are so many respondents inputting into the result, no one person is able to guess the winner, so it’s going to be a surprise announcement!

How does a business win Supplier of the Year and what does it mean?

A business wins Supplier of the Year by having the highest Net Favourable result from the combined, total retail/wholesale network across all the important aspects of business engagement. A high Net Favourable result means that the supplier has the biggest difference between having promoters in the industry, or those retailers who rate the supplier as best or better than average, less the detractors, those retailers who rate the supplier as worst or worse than average. The performance areas which make up the rating are: Business Relationship & Support; Personnel; Category Management; Consumer Marketing Support; Customer Marketing/ Promotion Practices; Supply Chain Management.

How does a business win the Supply Chain Partnership award and what does it mean?

The Supply Chain Partnership Award was introduced to place increased focus on the vital connection between suppliers and retailers in supply chain engagement beyond just the hard service level results

A supplier will win this award based on the highest Net Favourable result by combining selected supply chain engagement measures. These are: aligns with our key supply chain performance metrics; builds strong relationships with supply chain teams; Proactive in implementing practices and processes that improve total supply chain efficiency; proactively works with us on forecasting to prevent out-ofstocks; provides timely, proactive communication about order status, adjustments, and changes; Provides easy to reach, responsive customer support service.

How difficult is it to keep the results under wraps until the Awards night on September 13?

This award means that the supplier has been recognised by all retailers as having the best overall

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integration into their supply chain management.

Because it does not include hard measures such as service levels, it deliberately recognises behaviours which are highly valued by retailers, such as how well a supplier handles issues when things go wrong, how well they communicate issues, and how proactive they are in finding solutions. This is analogous to the Supplier of the Year not necessarily being the one with the highest sales or sales growth.

How does a business win the Most Improved Supplier award and what does it mean?

A supplier will win this award based on the highest increase in Net Favourable result across all performance measures. Recognition as above in

point 2.

How does Advantage Australia conduct its benchmark study measuring how favourably a supplier is regarded by retailers in both the on and off-premise? Will there be any changes to the process this year?

Advantage conducts hundreds of surveys at all levels of seniority and with all supplier-facing functions (e.g. Merch, Supply, Marketing) with every major retailer in the Liquor Industry. Surveys are conducted with On Premise and Off Premise retailers. These responses are then combined to provide an overall score across all the performance areas. There are no changes this year.

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Brisbane’s Aria restaurant wins Australia’s Wine List of the Year 2018 Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards 2018 has revealed the Best Wine List in Australia can be found at Aria, Brisbane.

This is a major victory for Queensland, the first time in the awards 25 year history that a Queensland restaurant has won this prestigious national accolade.

As the sommelier responsible for the winning list, Ian Trinkle receives the Judy Hirst Award, presented in memory of the inspirational woman who helped found and establish the awards 25 years ago.

style and structure to its Sydney sibling, gives unique support to the fledging Queensland industry as well as highlighting the best Australia has to offer. Like few others, it balances the cutting edge and the established; embracing new trends while celebrating old favourites. Thoughtful curating has gradually refined an outstanding list which has morphed into Australia’s finest in 2018.”

“This is further confirmation that Brisbane restaurants can mix it with the best in the country,” he said.

Much-admired Melbourne sommelier David Lawler, who won the 2010 Best Wine List of the Year at Rockpool, Melbourne and recently retired as President of Sommeliers Australia was awarded the rarely-given Individual Award with entry into the Hall of Fame for his passionate commitment to the Sommelier profession and the hospitality industry supporting the education, training and service skills of sommeliers.

“Since it opened in 2009, the Aria list while similar in

First launched in 1993, by Rob Hirst and Tucker

Co-chairman of Judges Peter Forrestal, was delighted to see the major award go to the Sunshine State.

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Seabrook, Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards were created to recognise and reward the hard work and talent of sommeliers as well as the enormous investment in time and resources by business owners to develop quality wine lists and cellars.

The first winner in 1994 was Peter and Beverley Doyle’s Sydney restaurant Cicada.

Setting the standard high from the beginning, the awards have always been independently judged. This year’s 30-strong panel included respected local and international Master Sommeliers, Masters of Wine, wine communicators and previous award winners.

According to Rob Hirst, 2018 saw a record number of entries in the awards with a record also 325 dining establishments including restaurants, clubs, pubs, hotels and wine bars achieving the higher glass rankings of two glasses (excellent) or three glasses (outstanding). “The most popular award category in 2018 remains Best Wine By the Glass – the perfect vehicle for introducing premium wines to the consumer, followed again by Best Matching of Food and Wine – reflecting again the ever closer liaison between sommeliers and chefs.

These categories were closely followed in popularity

by Best Listing of a Regions Wines and Best Listing of Australian Wines – showing the increased interest and desire by both sommeliers and consumers to explore the wines of different regions including the exciting things happening with Australian wines today,” says Hirst.

“The Drinks Association is thrilled to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of Australia’s Wine List of the Year,” said CEO Georgia Lennon. “We look forward to promoting the winners in our premier publication, Drinks Trade magazine, the Trade Communications Partner of the event. Keeping Australia’s on and off-trade informed is key to Drinks Trade’s success and these awards are a valuable acknowledgement of the achievements of Australia’s sommeliers and their employers. Congratulations to all the winners.”

Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards once again would like to acknowledge the important support of Riedel glassware, Vintec and Transtherm wine cabinets and Wine Australia as well as all supporters who make the awards possible.

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Judges impressed by Contribution to Industry entries at Australian Drinks Awards Judging is drawing to a close for the inaugural Contribution to Industry awards at the 2018 Australian Drinks Awards.

The Gender Equity Award, Inclusive & Diverse Workplace Award and the Corporate Social Responsibility Award will all be presented during the Australian Drinks Awards ceremony on September 13, at The Ivy. The Drinks Association received an impressive number of submissions for the new category and the high calibre of entries will make choosing the Page 6

winners a daunting task.

The awards were created to recognise and celebrate companies driving positive change in the drinks industry. “Like all the Australian Drinks Awards categories, showcasing real-life examples by member companies encourages us all to raise our game,� explained Denis Brown, Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion at Drinks Council.

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awards are united in their aim to make the drinks industry a more attractive place to work. Experts on the judging panel for the Inclusive & Diverse Workplace award include Pysnapse founder Dr Jennifer Whelan and Corporate Diversity Partners founder Jéromine Alpe. Meanwhile, Chair of Women in Drinks Jennifer Collins and Serendis Senior Consultant Bianca Havas are among those who are assessing the Gender Equity award entries.

“Numerous research initiatives show that diverse and inclusive workplaces outperform noninclusive environments across many metrics,” Brown explained. “On a people level the desire for inclusion is also quite obvious to me – you want people to bring their individual best, and the team/company/industry to achieve better results, managing inclusively will accelerate this. If we are not inclusive, I feel great people will be drawn to other industries and leave.

“At an industry level it is a long term battle for great people and the drinks and the hospitality industry is ultimately a people business.”

Corporate Giving that transcends business goals and staff engagement to being more meaningful and sustainable to the broader community. The calibre of entries so far is impressive and smaller initiatives are as impactful as larger initiatives.

“I’m one of various judges across the drinks industry and appreciate the opportunity to recognise best practice in Corporate Social Responsibility via a rigorous process. The process is part of a scoring system that is evidence based and transparent to applicants and judges. This is an important award and I’m proud to be part of the first of its kind from The Drinks Association.”

The Drinks Association CEO Georgia Lennon agreed that even small acts have a big impact.

“This is a growing industry full of conscientious companies who want to make a difference to the world of alcoholic beverages as well as sustainability,” Lennon noted. “This award highlights the achievements of those companies who are doing great things in this respect.”

Women in Drinks Chair Jennifer Collins (pictured right) added: “I’m passionate about the drinks industry and its ability to attract, develop and retain talent – all talent. Our businesses need to reflect the demographic landscapes in which we operate. The business case is clear and well established.”

Driving social & environmental change Meanwhile, the Corporate Social Responsibility Award has been introduced to acknowledge the work drinks companies are doing to promote positive social and environmental change.

“I’m honoured to be one of the judges in the CSR category,” said judge Michelle Phipps. “The applicants have demonstrated a passion for

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Scratch-n-sniff alcohol labels are now a thing

Move over Augmented Reality labels, alcohol marketing has stepped back in time and resurrected scratch-n-sniff technology to stand out on the shelves.

Barbera and has notes of watermelon, honeysuckle, rhubarb, and is described by Winc as a “bright and juicy” rosé that’s “light-bodied, dry and bursting with watermelon flavour”.

Earlier this year Captain Morgan released Watermelon Smash in the US - a watermelonflavoured rum with a scratch-n-sniff label. Now Winc Wine Club has debuted the first scratch-n-sniff wine label, for its Cocomero Rose.

“The fun starts before you open the bottle. Smelling the fragrant watermelon will make you want to pop it open immediately,” Winc claims.

The California wine brand has been producing rosé for the last few years, but released its scratch and sniff label with the 2017 vintage of Cocomero, which means watermelon in Italian.

The 12.5% pink from the 2017 vintage is made from

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The technology was invented in 1965 by 3M and is created through micro-encapsulation - the desired smell is surrounded by micro-capsules that break easily when gently rubbed. It hit peak popularity around the late 1970s through to the early 80s.

Lifestyle websites have gone crazy over the idea.

Among the raves:

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“Let’s just say that I know exactly what I’m getting the next time I buy a bottle of rosé.”

“It’s so enticing, and there’s no way I won’t be buying it on my next wine run.”

“If only all wine labels were scratch-n-sniff, we’d never have trouble deciding on a bottle.”

Pernod Ricard launches scented ads for Beefeater Pink It’s not quite scratch-n-sniff, but Pernod Ricard stepped outside the box with its recent advertising campaign, creating strawberry-scented posters to launch Beefeater Pink gin.

The posters were installed in one of London’s busiest tube stops, Oxford Circus.

Michael Scantlebury, Creative Director at Impero which was responsible for the campaign - said that with social media marketing reaching saturation point, brands must “work extra hard to cut through the sheer amount of content and ads our industry puts in front of consumers every day, so we constantly need to find ways to truly catch and hold their interest.”

evoke more positive emotions, increasing our positive perception of the wine, our estimation of its quality and the amount we would be willing to pay for it,” said the study’s lead author, Associate Professor Sue Bastian.

The researchers gathered 126 regular white wine drinkers to test out three commercially available Australian white wines: a Chardonnay, Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc. First they performed a blind tasting with no information about the wine; a week later, they went in for a second tasting with what they thought were six new wines, but were actually the same wines as the first test.

Three of them had a basic description attached (a general description of the colour for instance), while the other three came with a more elaborate description of the wine.

Once the taste testers got that full description of a wine, they reported a heightened preference for that wine, and even a willingness to pay more for it at the store versus the wine for which they had no information.

We wonder how they’d feel if the label could also be scratched to reveal some of the notes in the wine?

New research: wine labelling key to sales success New research from the University of Adelaide’s School of Agriculture, Food and Wine has found that the descriptions on wine labels can actually alter people’s emotions, even encouraging them to pay more for a bottle.

“Cleverly written wine and producer descriptions when coupled with unbranded wine tasting can

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New associate editor for Drinks Trade Melissa Parker has joined the team at Hip Media - which produces Drinks Trade for The Drinks Association - replacing Hannah Sparks.

“As always, nothing stands still in our dynamic industry, and the same can be said of our team here at Hip Media,” explained Managing Editor Ashley Pini.

“Our experienced team is losing one member and gaining another. It has been an absolute pleasure working with Hannah and everyone in the team wishes her all the best as she sets off in search of new adventures.

“Melissa joins the team and will be known to many of you already. Based in Melbourne, Melissa brings a new dimension to the reporting on all things Victoria to the pages of Drinks Trade.

And with over 20 years’ experience in the drinks industry, there isn’t a more experienced pair of

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hands in which to place the trust of Australia’s own drinks industry publication.”

As for the July/August issue of Drinks Trade, it has a focus on innovation, from pink drinks, to SouthTrade International’s Managing Director Ray Noble discussing how the company’s latest changes, to NSW winemakers reshaping the future with alternative varietals.

Click here to read the digital edition of Drinks Trade July/ August.

Pictured main: Melissa Parker with Ashley Pini and

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Australian Drinks Awards welcomes Mainfreight as a sponsor The Drinks Association is thrilled to welcome Mainfreight as the sponsor of its inaugural Fan Favourite award category at the 2018 Australian Drinks Awards.

Fan Favourite is one of three new consumer awards at the Australian Drinks Awards, alongside Emerging Brand of the Year and Most Distinctive Brand.

“Mainfreight genuinely appreciates the partnerships we have established with a large number of suppliers across the drinks industry,” said Brad Greer, National Business Development Manager.

“Sponsoring the Fan Favourite award is an opportunity for us to provide support and recognition for the hard work of so many across the industry. It is also a way of saying ‘thank you’ to the businesses and customers we have come to know so well over time. Brand leadership is the result of high performance in a number of areas and the Fan Favourite award recognises brand excellence in an industry where your consumers relentlessly demand nothing less.”

The Fan Favourite awards will be judged via a survey of 4000 consumers conducted by Thrive Insights.

According to Thrive Insights Director Chris Papadimitriou, Fan Favourite will be awarded to the brand in each category that cumulatively scores highest across brand metrics (awareness, trial,

regular consumption, most often and favourite) and on being identified as a ‘brand I like to be seen with’.

“Receiving the Fan Favourite award signals the status of a brand within the industry as the category leader and as such is an immense honour,” he said.

Mainfreight is also an Associate Member of The Drinks Association. It has built a local and global network of facilities and equipment that provide drinks industry businesses with logistics solutions from point of production to restaurant table or direct to consumer.

“The team has developed a level of specific drinks industry knowledge that allows us to create innovative distribution solutions that reduce our customers overall supply chain cost per case,” said Greer.

The Australian Drinks Awards will be held at The Ivy Ballroom, Sydney, on September 13, 2018.

“Being able to witness the exhilaration shown by all the recipients that win awards during the night will be an exciting and humbling experience,” concluded Greer. “With such a close community across the drinks association, being able to say hello to friends and industry partners within the relaxed environment of the “drinks industry awards” is always enjoyable and is now an important date on our teams diary.”

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New Global Marketing Director for Pernod Ricard Winemakers

Pernod Ricard Winemakers has appointed Darryn Hakof Global Marketing Director, following executive transfers within the Pernod Ricard Group.

has since worked in various global roles in business and brand development across the Pernod Ricard group, including Vice President of Brand Development for The Absolut Company.

Hakof replaces Anne Tremsal, who has been appointed Marketing Director of Ricard & Pernod based in Marseille as part of the group’s annual appointments.

The company noted: “Darryn brings extensive knowledge of the Pernod Ricard portfolio and has developed a deep understanding of global wine markets and consumers.”

Hakof has nearly 20 years’ experience within the Pernod Ricard Group, most recently in his role as Director of Strategy and New Business for Pernod Ricard Winemakers. He started his Pernod Ricard journey in 1999 as a Management Accountant for Orlando Wyndham Group and

Hakof said: “Our portfolio of leading, awardwinning, wine brands is one of the most premium and diverse in the industry. This is an exciting opportunity to work with our talented, innovative and passionate teams, and with our valued global partners, to bring our brand stories

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to life with consumers around the world”.

Graffigna.

In his new role, Darryn will continue to report to Bruno Rain, Chairman and CEO of Pernod Ricard Winemakers; while also remaining a member of the Pernod Ricard Winemakers Management Committee and a Better Balance Ambassador, promoting diversity and inclusiveness within the business.

Tremsal had been in the role of Global Marketing Director for Pernod Ricard Winemakers since 2013 and was previously communications director of Ricard. Since joining the Group in 1989, she has worked across a portfolio of products including Ricard, Chivas, Jameson, The Glenlivet and Perrier Jouet.

The Pernod Ricard Winemakers portfolio includes brands such as Jacob’s Creek, Brancott Estate, Stoneleigh, Campo Viejo, Kenwood Vineyards and

Congratulations to them both!

Retail Ad Watch has been expanded The Drinks Association and Ebiquity have announced an upgrade to the Retail Ad Watch Database to allow direct bulk exports.

The Retail Ad Watch service collects and collates retail drinks advertising on a daily basis across 289 metropolitan, regional and suburban newspapers and catalogues.

Previously the service allowed users to search and export more than 20,000 lines of data.

The improved service allows searches of up to 500,000 lines of data. The results are emailed directly to users’ inboxes within 30 minutes.

“In our continuing efforts to meet members’ appetite for Drinks Ad Watch data we have expanded the capability of Portfolio to allow the export of up to half a million lines of data,” explained Aaron Rigby, Director of Client Services – Ad Intel.

The new limit gives enormous flexibility and depth to the database and allows for the export of around 12 months of advertisements at every price point.

“Previously, analysing large data sets required multiple exports from the platform” said Client Services Manager James Ravestijn. “Now you’re able to download multiple years of price points for a single alcohol group, which makes doing year on year reports a lot easier.”

For more information, please contact James on jamesr@drinks.asn.au.

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ADAs welcome Coles Liquor as a sponsor

The Drinks Association is thrilled to welcome Coles Liquor as the sponsor of its inaugural Inclusive & Diverse Workplace Award at the 2018 Australian Drinks Awards.

The Inclusive & Diverse Workplace Award celebrates organisations that prioritise diversity and recognise the value of an inclusive workplace for individuals and their organisations.

Diversity & Inclusion at Drinks Council Chair Denis Brown notes: “Judges will be looking for an organisation that involves its employees at all levels in creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. The organisation should also demonstrate a proactive approach in the fair and equitable treatment of all employees and show evidence of how it is taking action to eliminate discriminatory attitudes and behaviours i.e. training, education, policies/procedures for recruitment etc.”

Coles Liquor sponsored the Inclusive & Diverse Workplace Award after seeing how diversity of thought and experience has grown its own business.

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“D&I is such an important pillar for any business or industry looking to remain future fit,” said Cathi Scarce, Acting Director, Coles Liquor. “Attracting the best possible people to the industry means recognising that broadening your diversity range opens you up to a whole new world of potential talent.

“It’s just a plain fact that any business that wants to thrive must be future fit - a diverse and inclusive workplace will give you the best possible chance of keeping the industry growing.”

Scarce said she is looking forward to celebrating with the drinks industry and the winners at the Australian Drinks Awards ceremony on September 13, at The Ivy in Sydney.

“I am so excited to be celebrating with the Drinks Industry and all the award winners at the awards,” Scarce concluded. “This is a time when the industry shines the light on its best and brightest and the inclusion of the new awards only adds even more to what is a fabulous and exciting event.”

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CUB chooses BevChain for East Coast logistics Carlton & United Breweries has appointed BevChain to provide warehousing and metropolitan delivery services across its East Coast operations.

The stand-alone network will see BevChain operate CUB’s own warehousing facilities and provide route delivery services for CUB’s pack and keg requirements at Truganina in Victoria, Rosehill in NSW, and Heathwood in Queensland, as well as metropolitan keg delivery services from Abbotsford in Victoria.

“We’re delighted that CUB has recognised the benefit of the specialist beverage solution put forward by the BevChain team,” said Linfox CEO, Mark Mazurek. “This has been a strong opportunity to back our investment in BevChain and it’s consistent with our strategy to match our specialist industry expertise with our customers’ market requirements.”

“CUB is pleased to announce that Linfox subsidiary BevChain has been appointed as our warehousing and metropolitan delivery services partner. This agreement extends our relationship to more than 50 years,” said Jan Craps, CEO CUB.

“BevChain are the leaders in beverage supply chain solutions, and CUB is excited to be partnering with them to support our supply chain and ensure that we’re delivering the freshest beer to Australians, wherever they might be.”

“It’s a great news story for our business, and gives us tremendous encouragement that we’re doing the right things, and doing them well. CUB and Linfox have a deep history extending back to 1968, so we appreciate the importance of the relationship to the group, and we’re excited about taking up the mantle,” added Bob Kennedy, BevChain General Manager.

Transition planning is underway, and BevChain will commence services at each site as existing arrangements expire.

BevChain is the sponsor of the inaugural Distinctive Brand of the Year Award at the 2018 Australian Drinks Awards and an Associate Member of The Drinks Association.

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Weekly licence updates for SA & WA New CUB CEO Carlton & United Breweries has announced that Peter Filipovic has been named as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CUB and will commence on 1 January 2019.

Due to a steady increase in Liquor Licence activity in South Australia and Western Australia over the past six months, The Drinks Association has increased the frequency of Liquor Licence updates from monthly to weekly.

The new weekly updates for SA and WA will be included in the Drinks Association Weekly Liquor Licence Movement Reports that are compiled every Friday.

The Drinks Association will continue to provide daily updates for NSW, Victoria and Queensland.

Due to minimal activity with licences in Tasmania, ACT and Northern Territory, these will continue to be updated as we receive them.

If you have any questions regarding this information or any other feedback regarding the Liquor Licences Database, please contact us at info@drinks.asn.au or 02 9415 1199.

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Filipovic has worked for CUB for 21 years, starting as a graduate, and was appointed as the Australian Business Unit President in 2016.

He will succeed the current CEO, Jan Craps, who will become CUB’s Executive Chairman.

“I am looking forward to continuing CUB’s momentum of growth and innovation and working closely with Jan as we take CUB to the next level,” said Filipovic.

“As always, our customers and consumers will continue to come first. We’ve been a successful company since 1832 by ensuring our focus is on delivering quality and value to our customers and consumers throughout Australia.”

Craps added: “I am proud that CUB has firmly established itself as Australia’s leading brewer, with a range of innovations and sustainability achievements that have set us up well for the future.”

“It has been an honour to lead CUB, and its passionate workforce, at a time of real change in the Australian beer market.”

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news Huge demand for latest Women in Drinks event Women in Drinks’ upcoming NSW Chapter event looks set to be its most successful yet, selling out within days of tickets going on sale.

The panel discussion on August 16 will dicuss: “Have confidence in your potential and chase after it”.

The panel will explore three different perspectives on the imbalance that still remains between how many women and men approach their next career move, that internal promotion or a successful negotiation when it comes to salary or pay rise.

Attendees will learn what you can do to even the gender balance for yourself, your employees and the potential talent out there that you want to recruit into our industry.

The external recruiter perspective will be given by Susan Makatoa, Division Director of Corporate at Temple, who will share observations from years of working with male and female candidates offering practical advice for guests.

The in-house employer perspective will come from Holly Maginness, Talent Acquisition and OnBoarding Director at Lion, who will share how Lion have reviewed their internal recruitment processes to overcome unconscious bias.

The personal experience perspective will be provided

by Jemma McGinley-Eaves started at Diageo, who started as a Sales Merchandiser almost 13 years ago and worked her way up in the male-dominated environments of sales and supply. Today Jemma is a senior leader in the business and was recently named Head of Supply Chain and Business Development.

The event will be moderated by Eoin Brawn, Head of Field Sales and Capability at Diageo Australia.

For those who missed out on tickets, we will report on the event in the next issue of Drinks Newsletter.

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2018 Australian Women in Wine Awards open for entry

Entries and nominations for the 2018 Australian Women in Wine Awards are now open.

Now in its fourth year, the Australian Women in Wine Awards – which started in 2015 - is the first and only awards platform for women in wine.

Member of the 2018 AWIWA Advisory Board and prominent wine journalist Jeni Port said that while the Australian wine industry has enthusiastically embraced the Australian Women in Wine Awards there is still much work to do.

“While participation rates of women in the industry remain low - way below 50% across the board - we have our work cut out,” she noted. “We are not complacent, and the industry shouldn’t be either.

“This year we need more women to step forward and enter the awards, be visible and be there for women coming through.”

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The award categories are Winemaker of the Year; Viticulturist of the Year; Researcher/Innovator of the Year; Marketer of the Year; Cellar Door Person of the Year; Workplace Champion of Change; Owner / Operator; and Woman of Inspiration The Australian Women in Wine Awards – which are owned and operated by The Fabulous Ladies’ Wine Society and conducted with the assistance of an advisory board of industry leaders - works to celebrate and reward the work of women in the Australian wine community, and community leaders who champion equality and fairness for all sexes in the workplace.

Previous winners include Prue Henschke (Viticulturist of the Year, 2016), Sue Hodder (Woman of Inspiration, 2017) and Virginia Willcock (Winemaker of the Year, 2017).

The winners will be announced on November 16 at the first ever Australian Women in Wine Symposium and Awards Day at Quay Restaurant in Sydney.

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All-female bartending competition Speed Rack hits Australia Last month, 16 mixologists from almost every corner of the country got behind the stick to battle it out for first prize – and raise funds for a good cause.

Speed Rack is the brainchild of Lynette Marrero and Ivy Mix, two award-winning professionals from New York who began the competition in 2012 to turn the spotlight women in the industry.

“When we had the idea, we wanted this to be a platform for females behind the bar,” Mix says. “It still is, but seven years later, there are so many more women in the world’s best bars. There’s now a sense of sorority and celebration that is showcased at our events.”

After hugely popular competitions in the US and Canada, Speed Rack has now made its way to Australia with competitors including The Gresham’s Millie Tang, Shay Chamberlain from Melbourne’s Black Pearl, Jenna Hemsworth of Restaurant Hubert and Jemima McDonald of Earl’s Juke Joint (both in Sydney).

Tickets to every Speed Rack event raise money for breast cancer research, with its fundraising tally now over $850,000.

The inaugural competition was won by The Baxter Inn’s Priscilla Leong (top left).

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Industry’s own inspire at Women in Drinks Victorian Chapter event The Victorian Chapter of Women in Drinks held its second Chapter event of the year at Treasury Wine Estates last month, featuring panellists Mia Lloyd, Thirsty Camel General Manager, Lucy Nandi, Major Accounts Capability Leader at Lion, and Janine Kennedy, IT Director from Treasury Wine Estates.

The event was opened by The Drinks Association Board Member, Sarah Parkes, and the panel facilitated by Carolyn Coon, Director of Corporate Communications at Treasury Wine Estates.

The topic was Cross Functional Career Change and the panel gave their advice to a sell-out audience on what to consider when planning your next role, and shared their experiences of moving roles, and even countries, as they followed at times unconventional paths to the leadership positions they hold today.

The panel reinforced that not all career moves have

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to be vertical and that broadening your exposure to other areas of the business can help sharpen your own career direction, and increase the value that you can bring to an organisation.

Both Women in Drinks Victorian Chapter events this year have sold out within two weeks, with requests for additional tickets being turned down.

Women in Drinks Councillor Angela Burgum commented that “support for these events has been overwhelmingly positive by the Victorian drinks community, and with events as uplifting as this you can see why.”

Women in Drinks Chapters now run events in five states, with the inaugural WA event held in July. For more information on Women in drinks visit http:// www.drinkscentral.com.au/Womenindrinks or contact info@drinks.asn.au

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Why NAB’s diversity team focuses on mature workers

Retaining and recruiting mature age workers helps foster a “truly integrated team” and stay one step ahead in the marketplace, according to Kristy Macfarlane, head of diversity & inclusion at National Australia Bank (NAB).

provide a great customer experience.”

Macfarlane tells HRD Magazine that NAB understands that attracting and retaining mature age workers is a competitive advantage and also a business imperative.

It revealed nine out of 10 people prefer to work with colleagues across a raft of ages, despite having conflicting opinions on management preferences, communication styles and career progression.

“Mature-aged employees bring rich life experience, industry expertise and the ability to remain resilient in uncertain times,” said Macfarlane.

Working in multigenerational teams - featuring 10-15 years difference in age - is the new normal (86%), and people have a largely positive outlook towards this trend, according to the latest Randstad Workmonitor study.

“These are assets to our business and help us to

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Macfarlane’s comments come following new research which shows Australians are embracing multigenerational teams.

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In fact, 86% believe collaboration between age groups is mutually beneficial and 85% say it drives innovation.

Alison Monroe, national director of RiseSmart Australia and New Zealand, added that Australian businesses now “manage up to five generations under one roof”and there is much to be gained by striving for a workplace culture that brings out the best in all generations.

“Employing people from different generations fosters diversity of thought in any team and it’s crucial not to alienate individuals by relying on stereotypes.

“When our own bias and assumptions lie unchallenged, we risk the loss of knowledge and expertise, productivity and the inability to reflect our customer base.”

The report revealed that the telecommunication sector may be missing out on the benefits of a multigenerational workplace with just over half (57%) recording generational integration.

Interestingly, construction (88%), education and business (both 86 per cent) lead the age-diversity charge.

Despite the country’s seeming support for age-diverse teams, more than half of local workers (54%) believe managers treat each generation differently, including seven in 10 (67%) millennials (18-34 years old).

This is in stark contrast to their older colleagues, with just four in 10 (44 per cent) generation X and baby boomers (45-67 years old) seeing a difference in treatment by their managers across the ages.

biases and establish a culture of equality, respect and inclusion.

“This means less talking, more listening and seeking to understand.”

When it comes to career progression opportunities, mature age can be seen as both a challenge and an opportunity. Six in 10 (63%) mature aged workers perceive themselves to have an unfair disadvantage to their younger colleagues, yet seven in 10 workers (68%) still prefer their manager to be older than them, providing a clear opportunity for mature age workers to take up leadership roles.

The study also revealed that people are seeking good management, whatever the age of their manager, with nine in 10 respondents claiming their direct manager’s age does not matter, as long as they’re inspirational.

Moreover, communications styles in multigenerational teams need to be a key area of focus, as 79% of respondents cited this as the main point of difference between their older or younger colleagues.

Half of millennials admit they find it difficult to communicate with their older co-workers (49%), but generation X and baby boomers disagree - just one in four (23%) say they find it difficult to communicate with colleagues in another age bracket.

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Monroe said communication is the foundation of an intergenerational workforce and everyone has a role to play.

“The key to a positive and productive age-diverse team lies in the art of our everyday conversations. Each one of us needs to challenge our ageist assumptions and

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Australian boards urged to adopt cultural diversity targets Australian businesses should consider setting cultural diversity targets for their most senior ranks, according to a new report from Sydney University Business School.

The report titled Beyond the pale: Cultural diversity on ASX 100 boards identified Australia’s board members are overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic men who “display traditional male leadership traits” and who are selected from male-dominated networks.

Speaking at the launch of the report, Australian race discrimination commissioner Tim Soutphommasane, took the recommendation to introduce targets a step further, calling for a legislative mandate for cultural diversity.

“What I have detected around cultural diversity over the last five years in my job is that there’s a lot of risk aversion in Australian organisations around cultural diversity. People don’t want to be the first on cultural diversity but they do have a fear of missing out,” Soutphommasane said.

“The only way we might be able to get through this cultural barrier is if we get legislative mandates. If we have to wait for enlightened self-interest and for the leadership in corporate Australia to get this across the line we might be awaiting a while.”

Research for the Beyond the Pale report was undertaken by Dr Dimitria Groutsis, Professor Rae Cooper and the Dean of the Business School, Professor Greg Whitwell. It was supported by the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and is based on interviews with 18 ASX 100 board members and nine executive search firms.

Soutphommasane noted “there seems to be a deep reluctance to collect data on cultural diversity.

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“I hear very often that there are concerns about privacy, anti-discrimination law which prevent organisations from collecting data on cultural diversity. Well it is possible to collect data on these things. It doesn’t breach anti-discrimination laws and if you are in doubt about all of this just look at our cousins in other English speaking democracies,” he said.

Ming Long, Chair of AMP Capital Funds Management (above) added: “It’s so important to get the data because without the data we can’t get to targets and I’m an absolute massive proponent of targets, even if it is just to remind us that we are biased in our thinking.”

Rather than a 50/50 gender split, Long suggested organisations adopt a 40/40/20 target; 40 per cent women, 40 per cent men and 20 per cent (of either gender) that addresses another category of diversity.

“We need to do a lot more work on targets and we need companies to start accumulating all of that [data] so we can do more research, work out what’s going to work for these culturally diverse people as they move into leadership positions and hopefully on to boards,” Long said.

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New Executive Officer for Ultimate Winery Experiences Australia Ultimate Winery Experiences Australia (UWEA) has confirmed the appointment of Kate Shilling as its new Executive Officer.

Shilling will assume the role on August 6 and will succeed Sally Cope, who is relocating to London as Tourism Australia’s new Regional General Manager, UK. Shilling brings a wealth of tourism expertise to UWEA, with over 20 years in leadership roles at retail, wholesale and online travel organisations. She has a strong partnership marketing track record across all tourism sectors, and has worked independently and with leading media, creative, digital and social agencies to develop, promote and sell innovative travel experiences in Australia and overseas.

Shilling’s career to-date includes roles at Flight Centre in Australia and the USA, Myriad Marketing, Tourism NT, Territory Discoveries, NRMA Travel, Qantas Holidays, Helloworld and Australian Traveller Media. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a member of Women on Boards and was a Director then Chair of e-commerce not-forprofit Good 360 Australia for four years.

UWEA Chairman, Nick Baker said Shilling’s strong tourism background and diverse experience were key factors in her appointment into the role.

“Kate is joining Ultimate Winery Experiences Australia at a strong point,” he noted. “With this year’s expansion of the membership to 22 wineries and the variety of new overnight and multi-day experiences on offer, UWEA has cemented its position as the foremost wine tourism consortium representing Australia’s best winery experiences. Kate has a unique opportunity to drive the business into our next growth phase.”

Shilling added: “Our wine industry presents a unique opportunity for visitors to Australia because of the depth and diversity of experiences on offer.

It’s the people, the places and the produce in the wine regions that make these experiences distinctly Australian and UWEA is leading the way in showcasing these visitor experiences to the world.”

The UWEA group of wineries is now 22 strong, with representation in most of Australia’s renowned wine regions across five states. In NSW: Audrey Wilkinson in the Hunter Valley. In Victoria: De Bortoli in the Yarra Valley, Pizzini Wines and Brown Brothers in the King Valley, Montalto Vineyard & Olive Grove and Jackalope at Willow Creek on the Mornington Peninsula, Tahbilk in Nagamabie Lakes and Fowles Wine in the Strathbogie Ranges.

In South Australia: The Lane and Penfold’s Magill Estate in the Adelaide Hills, Yalumba in the Eden Valley, Jacob’s Creek Visitors Centre, St Hugo and Seppeltsfield in the Barossa Valley, d’Arenberg and Wirra Wirra Wines in McLaren Vale. In Tasmania: Moorilla Estate and Josef Chromy Wines. In WA: Leeuwin Estate, Vasse Felix and Voyager Estate in Margaret River.

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How The Drinks Association keeps you informed Here’s a handy guide to the ways the drinks association spreads the word about great achievements and initiatives in our industry.

The drinks association’s mission is to connect, inform, promote and strengthen the drinks industry.

We aim to keep you up to date with all the latest drinks news and developments, both in Australia and overseas.

We have a LinkedIn company page and three groups: the drinks association, drinks trade and Women in drinks.

Take a look at the many ways we keep you in touch.

Connect with us on social media Get your news even faster by following us on social media.

You can follow us on Instagram at the drinks association, where we have more than 1000 followers.

We have a monthly newsletter - drinks news We have more than 4000 followers on our three Facebook pages: drinks trade, the drinks association and Women in drinks.

We have almost 3000 followers on Twitter at drinks trade, the drinks association and Women in drinks.

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Visit our websites We feature the latest news updates at drinkscentral.com.au, diversity&inclusion@drinks. com.au and drinksbulletin.com.au drinks bulletin also sends out weekly newsletters that round-up the top stories.

Click here to subscibe.

Our websites reach almost 40,000 unique users every month, with almost 1 million page impressions.

How you can feature in our digital and print publications Email our Social Media & Communications manager Alana House on alanah@drinks.asn.au and drinks trade’s associate editor Hannah Sparks on hannah@hip.com.au We have a bi-monthly magazine - drinks trade

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3 easy ways to learn more about The Drinks Association’s services The Drinks Association has created a series of videos and infographics highlighting how we can help you.

The Drinks Association Learn more about the drinks association and the services it offers.

Click here to view the infographic.

Drinks Bulletin Keep your finger on the pulse of the whole industry with our weekly drinks bulletin.

Click here to view the infographic.

Drinks Trade Want to know what drinks trade magazine can do for you and your business?

Click here to view the infographic.

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What our Associate Members can do for you ...

A guide to the services provided by The Drinks Association’s Associate Members.

AMA AMA Commercial Collections is an Australian owned and operated enterprise that has served credit managers since 1977. It provides a full range of services and products including debt recovery, trade bureaus, credit consulting, credit insurance and information services. Click here to learn more.

BevChain BevChain provides national tailored supply chain solutions for the beverage industry across Australia with ‘best-in-class’ warehouse and distribution services.

Click here to learn more.

Core Element Core Element is a specialist boutique FMCG recruitment and careers business that recruits sales, marketing and general management roles across the grocery, liquor, foodservice and pharmaceutical sectors. The company combines contemporary functional and organisational credentials and the ability to engage a rich, diverse network. Click here to learn more.

Fix Corp Fix offers tailored solutions for system management, processes and efficiencies, category management, promotional program management, marketing programs & collateral management, retail support and merchandising, space planning, pricing, audit program management, data collection and analysis and reporting, product advice and product to market advice. Click here to learn more.

Hip Media Hip Media is a specialist, mid-sized publisher dedicated to meeting your marketing and corporative objectives. Hip creates publications that communicate with customers, members or stakeholders in an informative, entertaining and inspirational voice; specialising in print and digital content in the B2C and B2B sectors. Click here to learn more.

IRI IRI has the world’s largest set of consumer, purchase, media, social and mobile data, igniting growth for clients in the FMCG, retail and health sector. Whether it’s analyzing how to make your assortment, pricing and promotions more profitable, tailoring media strategies, or guiding you through new product or market planning, IRI helps grow your business. Click here to learn more.

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Kegstar Kegstar is an asset pooling business specialising in stainless steel kegs used to transport beverages. It collects empty kegs from venues and then redeploys them to other customers in the pool. Each keg is uniquely identified and tracked as it moves through the supply chain. Click here to learn more.

Mondo Search Mondo Search provides executive search and recruitment services across a range of industries in Australia, including direct selling, digital/ direct marketing, drinks, FMCG, franchising/retail and hospitality. Mondo offers tailored recruitment services through its Sydney and Melbourne consultancies, and has national and international affiliates through The Worldwide Recruiting Network. Click here to learn more.

Powerforce Powerforce is part of the Blueprint Group, which works with retailers and manufacturers to help unlock value for them through its integrated range of data, sales and marketing solutions. Powerforce and Blueprint’s CCS offer a full range of sales and marketing solutions through brand names such as Extravert, Retail facts! and Ausrep; and Retail Insight. Click here to learn more. tic technologies tic technologies provides custom internet and CMS solutions. tic’s team is available at all times, providing ongoing complimentary support. Its powerful, yet easy to use CMS can be extended to multiple, independent web sites.

When you need quality web technology, strategic marketing and support; think tic technologies. Click here to learn more.

BARSCAN BARSCAN delivers insights into the on-premise liquor trade. BARSCAN for Venues takes the hassle out of retrieving data from your POS, delivering a simple way to understand and analyse sales, margins and profit performance.

BARSCAN delivers insights into trends, trading dynamics, occasion dynamics and promotions in the on-premise liquor trade. Click here to learn more.

Ebiquity Ebiquity is a leading independent media and marketing analytics specialist.

It monitors advertising across all main channels – TV, Radio, Digital, Outdoor, Press – to provide you the required visibility to react to competitor activity, and give you greater confidence to develop successful communication

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strategies. We help you to understand who is advertising, where they are advertising, what they are saying, and how much they are spending. Click here to learn more.

GS1 Australia GS1 is a leading global organisation dedicated to the design and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of supply and demand chains. The GS1 system of standards is the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world. The company’s specialties are barcodes, EPC, GDSN, eCom, MobileCom, AIDC, traceability and supply chain standards. Click here to learn more.

JEM Computer Systems JEM provides Information Communication Technology (ICT) management and support for small to medium organisations. It offers 24-hour, 7-day-a-week remote support, ICT Project Management, software auditing and licensing compliance, regular system health reporting and proactive monitoring, disaster recovery planning and data back-up services, domain and DNS management, system integration, service and virtualisation, and hardware.

Click here to learn more.

Mainfreight As a global supply chain business with over 240 branches around the world, Mainfreight offers sophisticated logistics solutions in and out of the most dynamic economies. The company also offers specialised warehousing and distribution solutions. Click here to learn more.

NCI Established in 1985 as a specialist trade credit insurance broker, NCI has grown to become the leading trade credit insurance broker throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia. NCI focusses on protecting its client’s profitability - while credit insurance is the ultimate safeguard against bad debts, better business practices in trade credit management can also help to improve profitability on a day to day basis. Click here to learn more.

Nielsen Nielsen helps companies understand what consumers watch and buy.

Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across video, audio and text. The

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Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only global view of retail performance measurement. Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Click here to learn more.

Merch & Effect

Merch & Effect has a proven integrated approach to the management of merchandisebased projects and campaigns providing full-circle project management, including market research; product conceptualisation, creative development & production; warehousing & logistics: quality control; assembly & packaging; and international shipping & delivery.

Click here to learn more.

Touchstone Executive Search Touchstone has been helping clients secure the best senior executive talent since 2003. The company advises major Australian and multinational companies on senior appointments across the Asia Pacific region. Through research and global network relationships Touchstone builds deep industry background and behavioural knowledge, which allows it to deliver high caliber shortlists quickly and efficiently. Click here to learn more.

SKUVantage Specialising in helping clients drive sales, reduce costs and save time with a collaborative one-stop-shop approach to digital content management, SKUVantage brings a wealth of possibilities to member companies. The business already has a strong relationship with the drinks association through its digital content repository service www.drinkslibrary.com.au.

Click here to learn more.

Manildra This world-class distillery produces grain neutral spirits for a range of craft and big brand beverages – including vodka, gin, blended whiskies, liquor and read-to-drink packaged alcohol.

Twelve months after The Drinks Association visited ILG to welcome them as Category 1 Members, Rachel Wormald and Alison Herring visited ILG again to collect feedback on the use of services. Meeting with many familiar faces and some newer ones, ILG provided some valuable feedback on the Retail Banner Database and the Liquor Licences Database. The ILG team shared that the Drinks Ad Watch Platform is used regularly and made some great suggestions for The Drinks Association.

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Thank you to our ADA sponsors The 2018 Australian Drinks Awards are shaping up to be our most exciting yet and we couldn’t have done it without our Award Partners.

“The high calibre of our Award Partners recognises the importance of these awards among the drinks industry,” said The Drinks Association CEO Georgia Lennon. “We look forward to celebrating with all our sponsors - and our fabulous industry - on September 13.”

As the Australian Drinks Awards enter their sixth sponsor of the inaugural Supply Chain Partnership successful year, The Drinks Association has introduced an award. exciting new format to the premier event.

After consultation with suppliers, Thrive Research and Advantage Australia, The Drinks Association has overhauled the judging process and award categories for the drinks industry’s most prestigious night.

The Drinks Association is also proud to introduce three Contribution to Industry awards: the Gender Equity Award, Inclusive & Diverse Workplace Award and the Corporate Social Responsibility Award.

The top 200 brands have been automatically entered for accolades including Fan Favourite, Most Distinctive Brand Coles Liquor is the sponsor of the Inclusive & and Emerging Brand.

Diverse Workplace Award; Aon is sponsoring the Gender Equity Award; and Endeavour In the Brand category, Mainfreight is sponsoring Fan Drinks Group is sponsoring the Corporate Social Favourite; BevChain is sponsoring Distinctive Brand; and Responsibility Award.

Manildra Group is sponsoring Emerging Brand of the Year.

“After five wonderful years, The Drinks Association Supplier of the Year is determined by an annual Industry decided it was time to view the Australian Drinks Trade Benchmark Survey that has been conducted by Awards program with a fresh eye,” concluded Advantage Australia since 2009.

Lennon.

The survey provides members with favourability ratings and qualitative retailer feedback from the off trade, on premise, wholesale and outlets channels.

This year, Supply Chain Partnership and Most Improved Supplier awards have been added to the Supplier category and be determined by the survey. Kegstar is

“One thing that won’t be changing is the credible, clear and transparent judging that has made winning at the Australian Drinks Awards so highly regarded.”

The Australian Drinks Awards will be held at the Ivy Ballroom in Sydney on September 13.

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Meet our valued Corporate Partners It was another amazing year for The Drinks Association in 2017 and we couldn’t have done it without our valued Corporate Partners.

Our corporate partnerships aim to further our common goal of building stronger, more progressive, competitive and valued services to the drinks industry.

It was great to have our Corporate Partners on the journey with us in 2017 and we can’t wait to work with them again in 2018.

If you’d like to become a Corporate Partner of the drinks association or know a company that would be a great match for us, contact Alison Herring on alisonh@drinks.asn.au Here’s a guide to our current Corporate Partners:

Advantage Australia; Shopper Tracker & Real World Marketing Advantage is one of the leading business-tobusiness market research companies operating worldwide. They help clients create more rewarding business relationships through benchmarking.

Shopper Tracker is a quantitative measurement research programme based on shopper interviews, covering all major categories and retailers in one benchmarking process. The team at Real World Marketing are consumer, shopper and category experts.

Aon Aon is the global leader in human resource consulting and outsourcing solutions. Their services focus in helping organisations mitigate risk in their workforce and realise the untapped potential of their employees. They also help individuals maximise their wealth to enable people to live the life they want. The Aon Hewitt team of experts partner with your organisation to develop and

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deliver people strategies that achieve positive business outcomes.

BevChain BevChain provides national tailored supply chain solutions for the alcoholic beverage industry across Australia with ‘best-in-class’ warehouse and distribution services.

Nielsen Nielsen is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and related properties.

StayinFront Group StayinFront is a complete consumer goods CRM solution for the liquor and beverage industry providing an automated solution for field forces on iPads, iPhones, Android devices and Windows laptops and tablets. Supporting account selling, retail execution and direct store delivery activities it is a robust and highly-proven system that has been deployed by leading beverage and consumer goods companies worldwide to meet the challenging needs of the rapidly changing industry.

access to a wide range of decision makers, who are responsible for the procurement of alcohol.

Industry buyers are able to sample, compare and order new products, meet new industry colleagues and reconnect with existing ones. The 2018 event - to be held on June 18-19 at Darling Harbour - will feature an interactive show floor of taste testing, mixology demonstrations, master classes, seminars and networking.

The Drinks Industry Show The Drinks Industry Show is the only dedicated trade exhibition for the drinks industry, showcasing the best in wine, beer and spirits from across the globe. The annual event reconnects producers and distributors of alcoholic beverages with buyers from all industry verticals, providing unparalleled

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Need information on liquor licences and banners fast? the drinks association can help. Providing access to the only centralised national liquor licence database in Australia, you’ll never miss out on all the latest licensing and banner group news.

Active liquor licences as at July 2018

Top 10 banner groups percentage share of outlets Australian liquor retail market - June 2018

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