Drinks News April 2019

The Drinks Association | April 2019

Simon Durrant: “You’re invited to the party to create our future”

The new Chair of The Drinks Association’s Diversity & Inclusion Council - Campari MD Simon Durrant - has shared an inspiring message with the drinks industry. Turn the page to read more Page 2 >>

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The Chair of The Drinks Association’s Diversity & Inclusion Council has revealed how he hopes to make a measurable difference to the drinks industry.

Durrant, Managing Director, ANZ, at Campari Australia, was appointed Chair of the Council last month.

Simon Durrant told guests at the Association’s International Women’s Day event that council’s purpose was clear: to establish the drinks industry as a destination of choice by facilitating awareness, challenging perceptions and building practices that attract, develop and retain industry talent.

The Drinks Association recently announced that its focus on inclusion had entered an exciting new phase with the evolution of the Women in Drinks and Diversity & Inclusion Councils into one newly formed Council.

“I take the responsibility for Chairing the Diversity & Inclusion Council very seriously,” Durrant said. “I have two young children - a girl and a boy - and I would love them to consider the drinks industry as a safe place where they can be themselves, build rewarding careers, and benefit from the trust and camaraderie that exists, knowing they will be treated fairly and equally.”

He said the Diversity & Inclusion’s promise was to inspire and support member organisations to foster the development of inclusive and diverse practices within their business wherever they may be on their individual journey.

He noted that the Council aimed to accomplish this through three clear workstreams: 1. Gender: This will incorporate the established Women in Drinks platforms with a focus on growing

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our gender diversification. It will be led by Alan Ko and Danielle Beale from Coca-Cola Amatil.

2. Diverse workforce: This will focus on attracting a rich pool of talent from all walks of life. It will be led

by Madelyn Ring from CUB. 3. Inclusive workforce: This will work to create space for a our people to be heard and contribute meaningfully to our future growth. It will be led by Nicole Stanners at Campari.

“Our vision is to create a measurable difference to the way that the drinks industry embraces diversity and inclusion over the next five years,” he said.

“The journey for the workstream leaders is just beginning. We need to recruit our new volunteer teams, establish our goals and outcomes and build our platforms to deliver success. We look forward to sharing more with you in due course and to engaging with each of you on this exciting new chapter of our journey. Consider yourselves officially invited to the party to create our future!”

The Drinks Association CEO Georgia Lennon added: “Simon has the full support of the Drinks Association Board and is well placed to lead that change.”

Women in Drinks merges with D&I Council Joined as one, the Women in Drinks and Diversity & Inclusion Councils will further strengthen the brand proposition of the Australian drinks industry as a destination of choice that attracts and retains diverse talent.

“I am really excited to take on the role of Chair,” Durrant said. “I have seen many changes in the way we approach diversity and inclusion across our industry and I intend to help accelerate our embrace

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of that change.

“I want to recognise the hard work, progress, and dedication of the existing Councils, The Drinks Association, its Board and Council members and the impact they have made. In addition, some of our members are already well recognised for their advancements in diversity and inclusion and we are looking to our industry to embrace the benefits consistently across the whole membership.”

The Council’s new operating structure will focus on delivering tangible outcomes members can take back to benefit their organisations.

“We will enable ourselves to educate and inform at all levels within organisations, to report against the actions we are taking, and to hold ourselves accountable for delivering meaningful progress,” Durrant said.

The Drinks Association CEO Georgia Lennon noted that the Council’s mandate was not simply about gender equity, but also involved embracing employees of different ethnic backgrounds, ages and sexual orientations.

“These are issues that need to be addressed consciously and consistently at all levels and from all members of the drinks industry,” she said. “The responsibility for improving equality and diversity falls to us all if we are to bring about significant cultural corporate change.”

Durrant added: “Our industry is a vibrant and exciting community in which to develop a career.

To attract, develop, and retain the very best talent, it is imperative that the industry focuses on what is important for our people. We need to create work environments where people feel safe, are encouraged to be themselves, and to feel

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included.”

Lennon thanked inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Council Chair Denis Brown, Managing Director of Bacardi-Martini Australia (below), for his work.

“Denis was instrumental in the establishment of the Diversity & Inclusion Council and in staging a Leadership Summit in September 2018, where industry leaders joined together to give their views on shifting the dial and show their support for an inclusive drinks industry,” she said.

She also thanked Women in Drinks Chair Jennifer Collins for her contributions over the past two years.

“Jennifer has been an inspiring Chair and has been involved in some incredible moments for our industry, including the establishment of The Drinks Association’s Mentoring Program.”

More than 400 members of the Australia drinks industry gathered on March 8 to celebrate International Women’s Day with The Drinks Association’s Women in Drinks Council.

Women in Drinks calls on industry to “Be the change you want to see” The event featured the theme “Be the change you want to see”, with suppliers, wholesalers, on-trade and off-trade all raising a glass to diversity and inclusion.

Chair of Women in Drinks Jennifer Collins noted: “Each one of us can be a leader within our own spheres of influence to accelerate gender parity.

Through purposeful collaboration, we can help women advance and unleash their limitless potential.

“Today isn’t about selling the benefits of diversity and inclusion - these are already well established but to identify ways in which we can all play a role.

Our challenge is to turn the intent into action. Today we have 420 strong, successful and aspirational people in this room. You are the people to lead this dialogue - you are the agents for change.”

Guest speaker at the event was Naomi Simson, founder of online experience retailer RedBalloon and the co-founder of the Big Red Group.

Simson discussed the passion and hard work that transformed her start-up into a multi-million dollar success.

She also revealed that while much progress has been made for gender parity, she remains frustrated by the obstacles her daughter faces in the workplace and in finding role models.

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“She tells me: ‘No one I see ahead looks like me’.”

Simson also chafes at being called a “female entrepreneur”.

“I’m just an entrepreneur, my gender is irrelevant,” she said.

Simson’s keynote address was followed by a panel discussion featuring members of the drinks industry who have forged ahead in he space of gender, diversity and inclusion. Archie Rose’s Tori Tulloch, Lion’s James Brindley and CUB’s Peter Filipovic took to the stage with Naomi Simson, while the session was moderated Sally Byrne from Coca-Cola Amatil.

Lion won the inaugural Inclusive and Diverse Workplace Award at the 2018 Australian Drinks Awards for its LionFlex initiative; while CUB was a finalist in the Gender Equity category.

Byrne told the audience: “Both companies

demonstrated real change and proactivity throughout their organisations, while Tori comes from a younger business with less resources, but also unencumbered by previous paradigms.”

It was inspiring to hear Brindley and Filipovic discuss how they have worked to overcome unconscious bias in both themselves and their teams, instituting inclusive policies in all aspects of their brewing businesses.

Brindley said beer companies has a reputation for being “boy’s clubs” but he’s made it his mission to convert Lion to a “people’s club”.

“It’s about having awareness of how you socialise with your colleagues, the language you use and how you act,” he said.

He said one of the proudest initiatives he’d championed at Lion was Lion Cubs, where new mothers bring their babies to the workplace to

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both socialise with their colleagues and also receive business updates while on maternity leave so they don’t feel they are out of the loop.

Tulloch said businesses needed to be “in a hurry” to bring about gender equity in leadership and she didn’t want to wait 20 years to see it happen.

“It’s not going to be 20 years at CUB before it’s 5050,” Filipovic assured the audience.

Celebrating a great result for our charity partner The Drinks Association’s International Women’s Day event supported Women in Drinks’ charity partner, Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group (ANZGOG).

ANZGOG is the national peak organisation for gynaecological cancer clinical trials in Aus and NZ.

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Women in Drinks beat its target to raise more than $15,000 for ANZGOG at the event, through donating a percentage of ticket sales and running a raffle on the day, plus a Mumm Bar where guests could purchase Champagne with proceeds going to ANZGOG. Jennifer Collins said: “Our goal as Women in Drinks was to donate $50,000 over three years from 2017 to 2019 and we’ve smashed that, hitting $54,000.

“I am proud to say that the money raised at this year’s International Women’s Day event will put 10 women into clinical trials.”

“The support and awareness raising about gynaecological cancer at a such pinnacle event will ensure improvements and positive change in treatments for women,” added ANZGOG’s Julijana Trifunovic at ANZGOG. Our partnership is already making change. Together we will do this.”

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Thank you to our guests The Drinks Association was thrilled to celebrate International Women’s Day with so many of its member companies, Corporate Partners.

Commercial Partners and Associate Members.

Among Corporate Partners in attendance were Advantage, Bevchain, Nielsen and StayinFront. Our Commercial Partner guests included Hip Media, SKUVantage and OnTap Data.

Associate Members who joined us were Corporate Diversity Partners, Mondo Search and Kegstar.

And a huge thank you to everyone else who joined us to embrace the empowerment of women in our industry.

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Successful International Women’s Day event for Western Australia chapter Pub icon Sonja Gastevich was the inspirational guest speaker at Women in Drinks Western Australia’s latest event.

Gastevich discussed ‘Building a Legacy’ - it is widely recognised that her influence created the ‘bistro theme’ still current in the WA market’s suburban pubs.

The networking breakfast was attended by 84 WA industry persons including the Honourable Kate Doust and key members of the LSA of WA and the AHA, wholesalers ALM and Liquid Mix, together with many others from all companies within the WA drinks industry.

Held on March 8, it was the first International

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Women’s Day event for Women in Drinks WA. “A full house turned out to The Stables Bar and Bistro to hear from a legend of our Industry Sonja Gastevich on how she has achieved such success and built an incredible legacy for her family,” said Women in Drinks Councilllor Kat Dehavilland.

“There were current and previous employees, suppliers from all categories and her nearest and dearest family who laughed and at times also shed a tear while hearing about Sonja’s 60-year journey within the drinks industry.”

A Croatian migrant, Gastevich arrived in Australia at the age of 16 without a cent to her name.

Prolific in her attention to detail, she runs an empire of five Perth pubs, all of which she has designed, built and opened.

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Gastevich began her career in the far South West, taking on her first hotel in 1970. At 20, she opened her first restaurant in the wheat belt town of Narrogin and then build the Overlander Hotel in Manjimup.

She then set her sights on Perth, taking over the lease of the Whitfords tavern.

The mother of three children and grandmother to eight continues to work seven days a week, often for 12 hours a day. Her portfolio includes The Royal in East Perth, The Kingsley Tavern, The Old Bailey in Joondalup, The Kingsway Bar and Bistro, The Currambine Bar and Bistro, with her latest venture, The Stirling Cross.

Gastevich revealed to Women in Drinks attendees how she has broken down barriers to become a successful business woman and WA AHA Hall of Fame member. She shared insights on resilience, perseverance, achieving commercial success and creating a legacy for others.

“Motivated by old-school customer service and values her key message to all of us in the room was to surround yourself with like minded

people and stay true to your beliefs,” Dehavilland concluded. “Motivation, hard work and strong values will always in Sonja’s experience lead you to success.”

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New Drinks Trade website launches

The drinks industry has a new one-stop destination for news and product information.

category, region, format and supplier,” said Drinks Trade publisher Ashley Pini.

Drinks Trade and Drinks Bulletin have joined forces at the new-look www.drinkstrade.com. au, creating the most searchable and informative drinks source in the country.

“The relaunch of drinkstrade.com.au delivers a true industry owned and market leading resource. It’s Australia’s most dynamic digital platform, connecting suppliers with retailers and bringing them the latest news and information.”

The website offers daily news in addition to access to the digital edition of Drinks Trade magazine and the Drinks Guide website, the industry’s largest database of drinks products.

“Drinks Trade magazine is Australia’s highest circulating and most respected drinks industry publication, while the Drinks Guide website offers more than 18,000 products, searchable by

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Drinks Bulletin subscribers will continue to receive their weekly EDM, featuring the biggest drinks stories of the week, under the new Drinks Trade banner.

Not a subscriber? Click here to receive the EDM each Friday.

“Drinks Trade is Australia’s highest circulating and most

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respected drinks industry publication, while the Drinks Guide website offers more than 18,000 products, searchable by category, region, format and supplier,” said The Drinks Association CEO Georgia Lennon.

Drinks Trade magazine out now!

“By bringing Drinks Bulletin under the Drinks Trade banner we’ve made it even easier for our members and the drinks industry at large to keep informed and up to date.

“The Drinks Association’s publications and websites work to build a stronger, more informed drinks community.

“We aim to make a positive difference by strengthening the brand proposition of our industry.

“The new Drinks Trade website is a vibrant step forward as we work to create an increasingly wellinformed and engaged drinks industry.”

The Drinks Association will soon launch a new look for the Drinks Guide website. In the meantime, you can still access the current website at www.drinksguide.com.au or via www. drinkstrade.com.au.

You can also follow Drinks Trade on Facebook by clicking here, and on Twitter by clicking here.

Alana House edits Drinks Trade digital, contact her by emailing alanah@drinks.asn.au; while Melissa Parker (pictured below) edits Drinks Trade magazine, contact her by emailing melissa@ hipmedia.com.au If you would like to advertise on the new Drinks Trade website, call Ashley Pini on (02) 9492 7999 or ashley@hipmedia.com.au

The Caffeinated Cocktail Revolution features in the March/April issue of Drinks Trade, out now.

The Espresso Martini was created by legendary British barman Richard ‘Dick’ Bradsell added a shot of espresso in late 1980s.

Bea Bradsell talks to Drinks Trade about her legendary father and his iconic contribution to mixology - the Espresso Martini.

Drinks Trade also interview’s Kahlua’s first, and recently appointed, National Brand Ambassador, Ben Parton about the appeal of the caffeinated cocktail.

The latest issue of Drinks Trade also explores The Power And The Passion of South Australian wine; plus Ben Davidson interviews Alfred Cointreau, Global Brand Manager of Cointreau; and the Drinks Trade Tasting Bench explores Chardonnay, Grenache and Grenache Blends.

Read more about “The Espresso Martini and the Caffeinated Cocktail Revolution” in the March/April issue of Drinks Trade, out now! Click here to read the digital edition.

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Influencers, grassroots marketing & NPD key to drinks growth

PwC’s Paul von Kesmark and Birger Maekelburger discussed recent consumer trends and implications for the drinks industry at The Drinks Association Network Breakfast on March 21. von Kesmark has spent more than 20 years working in the retail and consumer goods sector, while Maekelburger is the Director Strategy & Retail & Consumer Goods at PwC and has 13 years of combined industry and consulting experience. von Kesmark outlined the top four things that PwC believes the drinks industry should address to face an increasingly complicated future with confidence and clarity.

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are asking for more from their employers, retailers are demanding more from their suppliers, producers are facing increased environmental and cost pressures, and technology providers are creating more tools and offering more capabilities,” he said. von Kesmark warned that consumer expectations are higher than the industry is currently matching.

Customers are seeing new experiences and products at a much faster rate, while grassroots campaigns are becoming much more effective than large, expensive launches, which he described as “shouting”.

“Shouting at the consumer occasionally with large launches means you leave long silences in between,” he said. “Focus on grassroots engagement and

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building a conversation rather than shouting every so often.” von Kesmark said the power of the influencer will continue to grow and suggested drinks companies work with them more closely.

“Collaborate with them,” he said. “Around 25% of the market is buying off the back of influencers. Talk to them about what their followers want that’s new, there can only be advantages to that dialogue.” von Kesmark said constant innovation was vital to survive and thrive in the current consumer landscape.

“You should be looking at doubling your NPD pipeline in two years and tripling it in three,” he advised.

The carry-out: 4 things to do now These were von Kesmark’s four big suggestions for attendees at The Drinks Association Network Breakfast.

1. Fast brands - review your NPD pipeline and list all the gaps you would fill without constraints.

2. Innovation loves company - create a cross-functional forum and use design Thinking or another process-driven approach.

3. Structuring for speed - If you doubled your NPD pipeline, what would be the bottleneck? Now triple it.

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4. Win in the boardroom - a mandate will be needed for change, and it starts with pitching a portfolio.

Don’t overestimate the digital threat

expect the very best of the online and offline worlds, with 51% researching online before purchase, 56% shopping in store and being prepared to pay more for faster and more convenient delivery options.

Maekelburger focussed on global consumer trends and insights for liquor retailing. He said the online sales threat wasn’t as strong for the drinks industry as other sectors, as customers still want interaction and advice about their liquor purchases in bricks and mortar stores.

Maekelburger noted that contrary to popular thought, Generation Z and Millennials aren’t wedded to shopping online.

To protect in-store sales, retailers needed to focus on increasing their service offering rather than relying on loyalty rewards.

The top attributes customers were looking for in store were ease of navigation, followed by knowledgeable staff, convenient payment methods and a fun experience.

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“They visit physical stores more regularly than the general population, with 62% visiting weekly.”

“They want to go to tastings, be invited to specialised events, visit festivals and attend masterclasses,” he said.

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news What it means to be a champion of diversity & inclusion

By Jeromine Alpe, CEO of Corporate Diversity Pathways and the Co-Founder of MondoMentor International Women’s Day 2019 was a wonderful occasion to share with Drinks Association members of all ages, races, religions, faiths and genders to celebrate this year’s theme - ‘Balance for Better’.

Clearly evidenced was the passion and commitment of leaders whose career, purpose and values align

to be recognised for making a difference. Leaders in drinks are using their influence for greater good, leaving a legacy for the next generation of employees.

I often get asked a question that we can all relate to: “How do I as a leader, raise everyone’s awareness that ‘diversity without inclusion is a little like an energiser bunny without a battery’?”

The answer? To embed shared values, shared vision

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and critically, shared drivers demonstrated through inclusive leadership behaviours.

There are three drivers to a successful gender diversity and inclusion road map: Where Are We Now? Where Do We Want to Be? And Why Does It Matter?

opportunities around building gender balanced teams; and current challenges around continuing to stereotype men’s’ work/women’s ‘work and the unconscious bias in recruitment when company policies are not followed.

Lessons from Australian companies leading the way

Creating an organisation scorecard helps to articulate how motivations, values and preferences align with workplace gender equality outcomes.

The recipe for success only achieves desired outcomes when every one of these 10 ‘ingredients’ are valued for the essential part they play to better attract, engage and retain top female talent.

Let’s start by learning from Australian companies that are leading the way.

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Develop rising women and ensure experience in critical roles

Corporate Diversity Pathways - an Associate Member of The Drinks Association - works with organisations to connect people leaders in conversation on their values on behalf of their business units and then have them be accountable for delivery against those values.

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Build a strong case for change

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Role model a commitment to gender diversity

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Redesign roles and work to enable flexible

What is evidenced is clarity around current

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Actively mentor rising women

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Set clear gender diversity aspirations

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Support great talent through life transitions

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Ensure policies are in place to support a more inclusive and flexible workplace 9.

Challenge the traditional views of merit in recruitment 10.

Invest in frontline leader capabilities to drive cultural change How will we get there?

Even the smallest expression of bias can have a substantial impact over time. At a time when the drinks industry is poised to become more collaborative, more productive and more competitive, it’s vital to be aware of biases.

Everyone is great at something. It can often be difficult to see what’s great in someone when our unconscious mind so powerfully guides us towards what we expect to be true in the world around us.

Moving through the four phases of unconscious bias to unconscious competency requires specific priorities and outcomes that link to business strategy and provide access to quantitive and qualitative data.

Want to unmask your unconscious bias? Click here to take Harvard’s Project Implicit Social Attitudes Test.

How will we track our progress?

Embedding inclusive leadership and you will better understand how to thrive in the 21st century to consistently represent the diverse communities we serve.

Every executive needs somewhere to turn for the insight and perspectives only trusted peers can provide. By creating opportunities for business leaders across the organisation to have shared accountability

for the success of agreed gender diversity and inclusion priorities, you are harnessing diversity of thought leadership.

When executives are given access to powerful peerto-peer networking it drives engagement. Leaders have a shared level of accountability to execute time-lined action plans, identifying specific roles and responsibilities for themselves and their teams.

Every 90 days is an opportunity to reconnect and present peer-to-peer to the CEO on opportunities and challenges. To celebrate that together great things can and do happen.

Three indicators needed to thrive – the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ 1.

What: Executives step up as leaders

How: attract, engage, develop, for succession and retain top female talent 2.

What: Creating Accountability

How: develop a culture of shared-learning, leveraging complimentary experience, expertise and capabilities 3.

What: Disrupting the status quo

How: Create a culture of collaboration across barriers and differences for deeper self-awareness As we look ahead into the future, our employers of choice in drinks will be those who influence an inclusive, innovative and high-performance culture that aligns across the entire organisation to compliment corporate strategy. To demonstrate alignment on shared values across the entire organisation through better attraction, engagement and retention of your organisation’s most important asset – your people.

Corporate Diversity Pathways is an Associate Member of The Drinks Association.

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The Drinks Association launches Inclusive Leadership Program

The Drinks Association’s Inclusive Leadership Program has launched for 2019.

Formerly the Women in Drinks Mentoring Program, the initiative will again be facilitated by Serendis Leadership Consulting.

This cross-industry leadership and mentoring program aims to enhance a culture of inclusion across the drinks sector while supporting a diversity of talented, aspiring leaders to progress their career. Participants also have the opportunity to enhance their inclusive leadership capabilities to bring back to their own teams, organisations and the broader sector.

This year, for the first time, both men and women will be accepted as mentees, recognising the importance of providing all emerging leaders the opportunity to develop inclusive leadership skills and experience the benefits of this impactful program.

The Inclusive Leadership Program will also run in Sydney and Melbourne if it reaches a minimum cohort

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of 12 pairs in each location.

We spoke to Bianca Havas at Serendis (right, with Serendis founding director Maude Lindley) about what participants can expect in 2019.

What were some of the key insights from the 2018 program It is exciting to see the sector committed to and actively integrating inclusion into their business practices. Given that companies within the drinks industry are at different levels of maturity when it comes to integrating diversity and inclusion into their businesses, I see there is an enormous opportunity for businesses to support each other in terms of sharing best practice and what they have learned along the way to influence the whole sector.

How has the program evolved?

The program continues to focus on building the inclusive leadership capabilities of participants

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while also helping aspiring leaders to progress their career with clarity and confidence. We have changed the name of the program to The Drinks Association Inclusive Leadership Program as we are ultimately aiming to build a culture of inclusion within the sector by equipping leaders with these inclusive leadership capabilities.

The method by which we deliver this is through group workshops and one-one-one mentoring conversations. This provides support to mentees to progress their careers in an authentic way while also providing mentors with a different perspective from their mentee, allowing them to reflect on and learn about their own leadership.

Have the needs of mentors and mentees also evolved?

With so many external factors influencing how we do business, I see the increasing importance of learning to lead in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. The capabilities of inclusive leadership are an intrinsic part of this so we continue to offer this through the program.

The program will include male mentees this year.

How will this be managed and what was the thinking behind it?

Yes we will be including male mentees on the program this year. We want to offer the opportunity to all aspiring leaders to learn about leading inclusively as these emerging leaders will shape the culture of sector in the future. We will still prioritise places for aspiring female mentees to ensure we see more diversity in the leadership pipeline, however we are excited to welcome men onto the program as well.

Are there any other new additions to the program?

We have extended some of the sessions based on feedback from the past years’ participants who felt they wanted more time to work through the content in the formal group sessions. We will also be adding more content around goal setting for mentees and advanced mentoring skills for mentors. This will further enhance the quality and impact of the mentoring conversations.

What do you enjoy most about being involved with the drinks industry I enjoy the people in this sector. There is a genuine appetite from participants in the program to learn and grow which makes my job so enjoyable.

The official program kicks off on May 9.

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Metcash receives WGEA citation Metcash is celebrating the news it has won official citation from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE).

build and improve on these efforts.”

The WGEA EOCGE citation recognises employer commitment and best practice in promoting gender equality in Australian workplaces.

• Promotion and leadership support of flexible working arrangements, including start/finish times, shift options, job sharing and working from home

Metcash is the only wholesaler across the supermarkets, liquor and hardware industries to have received this recognition.

• Significant progress in closing the gender pay gap to less than 2%

Commenting on the citation, CEO Jeff Adams said: “I’m delighted that Metcash has received this citation. Metcash strives to be a favourite place to work and has implemented a range of programs over the past few years to increase diversity in our workplace, including flexible working, parental leave polies and addressing the gender pay gap.

“This citation aligns with our values and is a testament to our hard work so far, we’ll continue to

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Metcash noted that it has made significant progress across a number of workplace initiatives including:

• Establishing a Diversity & Inclusion Committee and championing gender equality across the business • Tailored parental leave policies to support use by both women and men • A campaign to attract females to traditionally maledominated roles such as logistics It is also proud to have five women among its eight board members on the board, a ratio of 62.5%.

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Amatil wins corporate counsel team of the year

Coca-Cola Amatil has won FMCG Team of the Year at the Lawyers Weekly Corporate Counsel Awards 2019.

Now in its third year, the Lawyers Weekly Corporate Counsel Awards celebrates the success of individual in-house lawyers and legal teams across all industries in Australia.

This year’s ceremony featured 128 finalists across 25 categories. The winners were revealed at Sydney’s Hyatt Regency on Friday, March 29, 2019.

“Team of the year!” Amatil proudly announced.

“Congratulations to our dedicated and passionate Legal and Company Secretariat team led by Betty Ivanoff.

“This team helps employees from across our markets do business the right way, every day.

Industry recognition from their peers is a moment of happiness for everyone and worth celebrating!

Ivanoff joined Coca-Cola Amatil as Group General Counsel in April 2016, as a member of the executive, leading the legal and company secretariat teams across Coca-Cola Amatil’s markets and operations. She was also appointed as an additional Company Secretary in September 2016.

Amatil was up against fellow finalists Domino’s Pizza Enterprises and PepsiCo Australia & New Zealand.

In the individual category of FMCG Lawyer of the Year, drinks industry finalists included Lily Wong, PepsiCo Australia & New Zealand; Richard Conway, CocaCola Amatil; Fiona Anderson, Treasury Wine Estates; Pritasha Kumar, PepsiCo Australia & New Zealand; Jennifer Terjesen-Soem, Metcash Trading.

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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.

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.

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. 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

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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.

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.

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

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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.

Manildra Group 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. Click here to learn more NextGen NextGen Group is is a shopper insight and strategy consultancy that helps brand owners build their brands with and through retailers. It specialises in helpling clients generate breakthrough shopper insights and turning those insights into POP solutions in store. Click here to learn more Corporate Diversity Pathways Corporate Diversity Pathways is a management consulting firm specialising in corporate organisations’ Diversity & Inclusion needs. CDP has a shared vision to leverage female talent for diversity, equality, inclusion and peak performance through methods such as executive leadership programs and career placements for Women. Click here to learn more

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Meet our valued Corporate Partners The Drinks Association aims to make a positive difference by being a dynamic, vibrant and collaborative partner for its members and strengthening the brand proposition of the drinks industry in Australia.

Thank you to our Corporate Partners for helping us build a more informed and engaged drinks community.

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 Rachel Wormald on rachelw@ drinks.asn.au. Here is a guide to our Corporate Partners: Advantage Australia Advantage is one of the leading business-to-business

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market research companies operating worldwide.

They help clients create more rewarding business relationships through benchmarking. Shopper Intelligence is a quantitative measurement research program 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.

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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.

GS1 GS1 is a neutral, not-for-profit organisation that develops and maintains the most widely used global standards for efficient business communication. It is best known for the barcode, named by the BBC as one of “the 50 things that made the world economy”.

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StayinFront Acquires Lab4Motion

Leading global provider of mobile, cloud-based field force solutions and EPoS analytics for the consumer goods industry StayinFront, has acquired Lab4Motion Solutions.

The Poland-based provider of image and video recognition technologies will be renamed StayinFront Digital.

Lab4Motion’s image processing technology saves time in-store, improves compliance and eliminates the bias, subjectivity and error of the manual audit process while concurrently allowing users to increase the types of metrics captured during instore visits.

Self-learning algorithms identify all types of SKUs

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and automatic stitching of photos allows for captured multi-photo expositions to be efficiently analyzed. Seamless integration with StayinFront TouchCG enables consumer goods organisations to improve in-store productivity and gain real time visibility into product performance and customer behavior at the shelf by delivering actionable insights to sales representatives and managers.

“We’ve been impressed with the technology of Lab4Motion and our future investment will allow us to better scale our digital offerings, deliver our new ‘interactive shelf’ product and continue our technical roadmap of the store of the future,” said Tony Bullen, Chief Technology Officer, StayinFront (Asia-Pac).

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“We’re excited to be incorporating the digital merchandising expertise of Lab4Motion into our core products, StayinFront TouchCG and StayinFront EdgeCG. This fits nicely with our 20:20 RDI acquisition which focused on driving measurable improvements to retail execution strategies by enhancing sales revenue and improving return on investment in the deployment of field resources and trade spend execution,” added Thomas Buckley, CEO of StayinFront.

“We continue to see real opportunity to deliver seamless advanced capabilities in the form of actionable insights to our global clients. Integrating digital merchandizing and image recognition technologies with analytic technologies fits squarely within our goal of allowing our clients to Do More, Know More and Sell More.”

“We’re amazed with the depth of StayinFront’s technical team, product line and global reach,” said Maciej Witkowski, Chief Operating Officer of Lab4Motion. “We’ve laid out our exciting product roadmap and I look forward to leveraging our technical teams to deliver best-in-class digital functionality to our consumer goods clients.”

New MD for StayinFront StayinFront recently announced that Archel Aguilar, former Implementation Director, has been promoted to Managing Director for StayinFront Group Australia.

The company said the decision was made due to Aguilar’s longevity with the company, as well as his strong professional skill set.

“We are so pleased to elevate Archel to this welldeserved position. His knowledge of deploying retail execution software solutions for consumer

goods companies made our decision simple,” said Anthony Bullen, Executive Senior Vice President, StayinFront.

“It’s exciting to belong to this organisation with such a strong foothold in the retail execution space,” said Aguilar. “I look forward to growing the business and using my experience of over 15 years with StayinFront to assist our clients’ field force to Do More, Know More and Sell More.”

Aguilar earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Data Science and Innovation at the same institution.

StayinFront is a Corporate Partner of The Drinks Association and we were thriled to meet Aguilar when he attended our Women in Drinks International Women’s Day event, held at Sydney’s Luna Park last month.

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