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Hunter was named as The Drinks Business» Woman of the Year in the 2017's
Drinks Business Awards, for her work transforming Conviviality from an alcohol, impulse and tobacco wholesaler serving franchised off - licence business Bargain Booze into Conviviality PLC, the UK's largest drinks wholesaler and distributor, steering it through a string of acquisitions, including Matthew Clark in October 2015, events agency Peppermint and Bibendum PLB in May 2016.
Hunter was named as The Drinks Business» Woman of the Year in the 2017's
Drinks Business Awards, for her work transforming the business from an alcohol, impulse and tobacco wholesaler serving franchised off - licence business Bargain Booze into Conviviality PLC, the UK's largest drinks wholesaler and distributor, and steering it through a string of acquisitions, including Matthew Clark in October 2015, events agency Peppermint and Bibendum PLB in May 2016.
As with all of
the drinks business awards, our judging panel is comprised of Masters of Wine, Master Sommeliers and senior buyers making the competition globally renowned.
He also chairs the publication's annual awards programme, including
The Drinks Business Awards for product innovations and environmental initiatives, as well as the magazine's Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Champagne and Rioja Masters, for which he heads up a tasting panel of wine experts.
In May, the retailer won the drinks retailer of the year in this year's
Drinks Business Awards, after seeing its wine sales grow by 15 %, well ahead of the wider beer, wine and spirit market.
Not exact matches
Glengoyne Distillery is proud to have received a Commendation in both The Amorim Sustainability
award category and The Green Company of the Year category at the
Drinks Business Green
Awards 2016.
In 2013 he was also honoured as Personality of the Year at the International Wine Challenge
Awards, with a Lifetime Achievement
Award from the
Drinks Business and Personality of the Year at the Annual Wines of Chile Gala.
Chivas Brothers recently won The Sustainability
Award at The
Drinks Business Green
Awards with Dalmunach praised for its design efficiency.
The Scotland Food &
Drink Excellence
Awards recognise those
businesses and individuals in Scotland who are leading the way with innovation, enterprise and quality.
Twenty
businesses have been selected from 245 entries and announced as recipients of the Scotland Food &
Drink Excellence Awards 2016, Scotland's most prestigious food and drink aw
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Awards 2016, Scotland's most prestigious food and drink a
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The
award was received by David Rose from the
drinks business on behalf of Pernod Ricard.
Absinthe Aperitif Armagnac
Award & Event Organisers Baijiu Bars Beer Brandy - Other Brown
Business Cachaca Calvados Champagne Cider Cognac Corporate Services Department Stores Digestif
Drinks Producer Eau de Vie Europe Events Fine & Rare Fortified Wine Gin Grappa Hotels Liqueur Mescal Mixer Mixology Nightclubs Off Licences / Liquor Stores Off Trade On Trade Online Stores / Mail Order Pisco Red Restaurants Rice Spirit Rose Rum Services & Suppliers Shochu Sparkling Wine Spirits Still Wine Tequila United Kingdom Vodka Whiskey - American Whiskey - Irish Whisky - Canadian Whisky - Japanese Whisky - Other Whisky - Scotch White Wine
The Asian edition of our successful
Drinks Business global
awards recognises top companies and leaders in Asia's wine and spirits field.
Award & Event Organisers Brown
Business Champagne Corporate Services
Drinks Drinks Producer Europe Events Fortified Wine Germany Home Marketing People Red Rose Services & Suppliers Sparkling Wine Spirits Still Wine White Wine Worldwide
Agencies
Award & Event Organisers Bottles & Bottling Brown
Business Cartons Closures Coppersmiths Corporate Services Decorating Design Design & Packaging Design Agencies
Drinks Producer Equipment Europe Home Labels & Labelling Packaging Packaging / Brand Design Agencies People Presentation Packaging Printing Production Services Services & Suppliers Spirits United Kingdom Whisky - Scotch
Award - winning
drinks packaging company McLaren Packaging has been shortlisted in two categories of the Herald Scottish Family
Business Awards.
Agencies Associations Auctioneers
Award & Event Organisers Bars
Business Cash & Carry Champagne Clubs & Societies Consultancies Corporate Services Department Stores Design Agencies Distributors
Drinks Producer Education Europe Events Fine & Rare Fortified Wine Home Hotels Importers Marketing Marketing Agencies Nightclubs Off Licences / Liquor Stores Off Trade On Trade Online Stores / Mail Order Packaging / Brand Design Agencies People Publishers Red Research Restaurants Rose Services & Suppliers Sparkling Wine Still Wine Supermarkets Training Travel Retail United Kingdom Visitor Centres White Wholesalers Wine Worldwide
A full report on each winning person, brand and
business will appear on thedrinksbusiness.com tomorrow, complete with pictures and judges comments, while today we bring you a list of the winners in each category, beginning with our
awards for the leaders in
drinks design.
The
Drinks Business Green
Awards, in their fourth year, noted that the green agenda is increasingly important in the wine industry and that judges faced a challenge based on the quality and quantity of entries and the thorough, often imaginative commitment to sustainability.
SAN FRANCISCO — Wine Institute of California was given the 2014 Amorim Sustainability
Award for a generic organization by The
Drinks Business, a London - based industry trade publication.
Hosted by the
drinks business editor - in - chief Patrick Schmitt MW on 9 November during the Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Wine Fair, the
awards ceremony at Renaissance Harbour View Hotel Hong Kong was attended by around 100 guests eager to hear the announcement of the 12 - category winners across corporate, personality and marketing fields.
Full details on all of our
award winners will be published in the next issue of the
drinks business.
Speakers at the event include: Andrew Catchpole, Editor, Harpers Wine & Spirit Magazine and The
Drinks Wholesaler; Barry Dick, The Wine Superhero; David Richardson, Regulatory & Commercial Affairs Director, The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA); Richard Siddle,
Award - Winning
Business Editor; Denys Hornabrook, Co-Founder and Managing Director Vin - Exchange Group Limited amongst many other prominent industry authorities.
Award & Event Organisers Bars
Business Clubs & Societies Consultancies Corporate Services Department Stores
Drinks Drinks Producer Europe Home Hotels Nightclubs Off Licences / Liquor Stores Off Trade On Trade Online Stores / Mail Order Publishers Research Research Restaurants Sparkling Wine Supermarkets United Kingdom Visitor Centres White Wine Worldwide
The
Drinks Business and The Spirits
Business host a highly popular
awards series called The Masters.
Gondwana is one of three Indigenous - owned alcoholic
drinks businesses to have emerged in the past couple of years, along with the South Australia - based Something Wild Beverage Company (an offshoot of the Something Wild Indigenous food supply company, named Indigenous
Business of the Year at the Dreamtime
Awards in November), and Byron Bay Wild Cider, based in northern NSW.
Food and
drink businesses from all over Scotland have just over two weeks left to enter the Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards
drink businesses from all over Scotland have just over two weeks left to enter the Scotland Food &
Drink Excellence Awards
Drink Excellence
Awards 2018.
Agencies Asia
Award & Event Organisers
Awards Bars Beer Brown
Business Canada Cans & Canning Casks & Cooperage Corporate Services Design Design & Packaging Design Agencies
Drinks Drinks Producer Home Hop Merchants Japan Labels & Labelling North America Off Licences / Liquor Stores Off Trade On Trade Packaging / Brand Design Agencies Production Services Raw Materials Red Supermarkets United States
Border Biscuits has scooped the prestigious title of
Business of the Year at the 2012 Scotland Food &
Drink Excellence
Awards.
Wine Institute of California was given the 2014 Amorim Sustainability
Award for a generic organization by The
Drinks Business, a London - based industry trade publication.
Glengoyne Distillery's on - going commitment to the environment and all things green has been rewarded this year at the 2017
Drinks Business Green
Awards, with the Amorim Sustainability
Award for Spirits.
At SIAL China 2016, Trojka
Drink has received significant visitor traffic and new
business opportunities after winning the Gold
Award.
Fife
Business Award, Excellence in Food &
Drink - 2017 Scottish Hospitality
Awards, Best Hotel Resort - 2016 Best Large Hotel Winner — 2015 Scottish Golf Tourism
Awards
Short bio: Former banking executive Michele Peterson swapped
business suit for sarong and is now an
award - winning travel writer, editor and publisher who specializes in food,
drink and sun destinations.
Event partners include Platinum Partners Crytek, Deep Silver and Microsoft, Gold Partners Testronic, Amiqus, UKIE, Perforce Software, Sumo Digital and Pitbull Studio,
Drinks Reception Partner NaturalMotion Games, Table Gift Partner OPM Recruitment, Event Partners Nova Scotia
Business Inc and Playmob, and
Award Partner ARM.
The 13 % cut in Bacardi's UK carbon footprint beats Glaxo's 4 % hands down and emphasises the competitive
business attitudes that have brought leading sportsmen to represent Bacardi («Champions
drink responsibly», say Schumacher and Nadal) and had them
awarded leading «Triple Crown» quality and Health and Safety
awards.
Some notable transactions that I have worked on include the sale of
award winning betting and gaming digital solutions company Grand Parade Limited to strategic buyer William Hill PLC, for # 13.6 million in cash and shares, the # 6 million sale of Teamultra to Computacenter (UK) Limited, the sale of notable branded slushy
drinks company to Vimto, advising on a Hong Kong joint venture of a London based fashion and photographic
business, the demerger of a South East based nursing and respite care provider, the sale of legal software provider Peapod, and the # 18 million sale of aerospace, military, telecommunications software provider Varisys Limited.