PREMIUM PEERS

Premium Peers is going from strength to strength, and we are pleased to announce our most recent winners along with their nominations:

TARA HUTCHINSONSENIOR NATIONAL ACCOUNT MANAGER

Tara has done an absolutely fantastic job of driving our performance forward in Take Home (in Morrisons in particular) by building a brilliant relationship with them over the last few years and securing listings of our beers. She presented us with the request from Morrisons to create Old Session Hen in late 2023 and helped us to turn this project around in a matter of months and make it a great success! She recently shared some brilliant news that we will be gaining more than 1000 additional distribution points from March across a range of our beers as a result of her brilliant negotiations on our Joint Business Plan (JBP) with Morrisons. Many of these are above the initial forecast so a real testament to her relationship with Morrisons and her being a true advocate for our beers and brands! Above all, she is just an absolute star and a pleasure to work with :)

ALASTAIR NEWSTEADEQUIPMENT SUPPLY MANAGER

Alastair has spearheaded and worked tirelessly to move our cellar services fulfilment over from Celli to TVS. This action has not only driven great savings for GK of c. £1.5m over three years it has happened with relative ease for the order of magnitude of the project (about £1.2m of spend pa)

Alastair has done a great job of pushing himself to create the presentations to

ensure all of the senior teams were kept informed but has driven further savings through closer working ties with TVS from the outset. He has remained pragmatic and positive and always has a GK first attitude to his work. Further to that, with the support of procurement, he has also secured an additional £0.3m of rebate from the outgoing supplier- given they had nothing to lose this was no mean feat Time will tell how successful this transition will be but without Alastair's diligent work the concept and transition would not have been as smooth or as successful as it has been to date.

THE BREWERY-TO-BREWERY BIKE RIDE TEAM

Well done to the epic team that braved the weather, the hills, the falls and the sheer distance of 400 miles between Belhaven and Bury to raise a phenomenal amount for the Macmillan cause. As an individual fundraiser that didn’t rely on the sales of any of our products or any of our customers contributed to what I think is our largest one-off initiative to date.

Well done Sam, Leah, Pete, Jack, Paul, Stuart and Richard with all the support of Izzy and Gary.

Congratulations to you all and well done for making a difference.

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