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Global Beverage Insights
Global Beverage Insights will offer the opportunity for business leaders to gain a concise world view of market trends, industry issues, emerging innovation successes and technology development in one day. There is no other single opportunity for ‘charting the future’ so comprehensively alongside effective networking.
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About the event
Global Beverage Insights will offer the opportunity for business leaders to gain a concise world view of market trends, industry issues, emerging innovation successes and technology development in one day. There is no other single opportunity for ‘charting the future’ so comprehensively alongside effective networking.
Benefit from industry expert insights on:
- Global market trends including innovation and changes in China, Japan and the United States.
- Consumer and retail disruption addressed by speakers from IGD and Kantar.
- Emerging technologies covered by IBM on uses for blockchain, the founder of Dirty Lemon on conversational commerce and new market dynamics with an adviser to Anheuser-Busch InBev and Suntory.
- Zenith Global will share new findings on zero alcohol drinks, cannabis drinks, alkaline waters and fermented drinks.
- Anticipating and planning for 2030, with executives from Cott, Houlihan Lokey and KPMG.
Speakers confirmed include
Thursday 16 May
Congress Centre, Lower Ground Floor
Richard Hall, Chairman of Zenith Global Ltd
Duane Stanford, Executive Editor of Beverage Digest
Andrew Kuiler, CEO of The Silk Initiative
Steve Galloway, Managing Director of Galloway & Associates and Adviser to Beverage Japan
Volker Spiesmacher, Sales & Marketing Director of Bericap Holding
Fraser McKevitt, Head of Retail and Consumer Insight at Kantar Worldpanel
Simon Wainwright, Director of Insight for IGD
Jeremy Book, Product Manager, with Winston Young, Chief Architect at IBM
Krishna Kothari, Chief Executive Officer of Bizom, UK
Jamal Benmiloud, Director of Huel, advisor to Anheuser-Busch InBev and Suntory
Zak Normandin, Founder & CEO, Iris Nova (DIRTY LEMON, The Drug Store)
Mel Ragnauth Chief Commercial Officer, WET Group
Dr.Abbas Mohammed Director of R & D, WET Group
The alkaline phenomenon
Robin Bell, Senior Consultant at Zenith Global Ltd
Anne Wong-Erven, Insight & Advisory Director at Zenith Global Ltd
Simon Johnson, Insight & Advisory Director at Zenith Global Ltd
Yumiko Wilkey, Senior Insight Manager at Zenith Global Ltd
Jerry Fowden, Executive Chairman of Cott Corporation
Shaun Browne, Managing Director & Co-Head of UK Corporate Finance at Houlihan Lokey
Ross Colbert, Managing Director, Global Beverages for KPMG Corporate Finance LLC
Speakers
Richard Hall
Chairman of Zenith Global Ltd
Richard Hall is an acknowledged expert on the international food and drinks sector, chairing and speaking at numerous industry conferences as well as offering independent comment on bevblog.net.
He formed Zenith in 1991 as a specialist business consultancy for the food and drink industries. The company now has 40 staff working for more than 1,000 clients in over 50 countries. It provides a full range of consulting and market information services. In 2015, Zenith acquired the Beverage Digest business in the United States. He also chairs FoodBev Media, which he founded in 2000. Its team of 15 staff publishes two business journals and manages the foodbev.com website.
Richard has undertaken many consultancy projects over the past 25 years as well as helping form several industry organisations, including the foundation and chairmanship of the Natural Hydration Council. In 2010 he was Series Consultant for the BBC Money Programme series on The Foods That Make Billions. In 2013 he completed six years as Chairman of the Bath & North East Somerset Quartet Community Foundation, after two years as Chairman of the Bath City of Festivals Steering Group and two previous years as President of Bath Chamber of Commerce. He is currently a Director of Bath Philharmonia and a Governor of Royal High School Bath.
Duane Stanford
Executive Editor of Beverage Digest
Duane is Executive Editor of Beverage Digest, a newsletter covering the non-alcoholic drinks business. Previously, he spent 23 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Bloomberg News.
Duane graduated from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, where he met his wife of more than two decades. Laura Stanford is Beverage Digest’s marketing & subscriptions manager. They have a daughter in high school and a son in college. Duane is a serial PTA president and volunteer, holds a now rarely-used pilot’s license, and enjoys competitive tennis.
Andrew Kuiler
CEO of The Silk Inititave
Andrew is the founder and CEO of The Silk Initiative, China’s only specialized food and beverage insights-driven brand consultancy.
With nearly 20 years of experience working with major brands including Campbell’s, PepsiCo, Arla, VitaCoco, Goodman Fielder, Pizza Hut, Unilever, US Dairy, and Mars Wrigley, Andrew has a strong understanding of the strategic approach brands need to thrive. His expertise has also led to him being featured in major publications including Entrepreneur Magazine and Smart Insights. He is highly sought after by think tanks, financial institutions, and government organizations for his insights on the Chinese consumer market and branding.
Steve Galloway
Advisor to Beverage Japan
Steve Galloway is Founder and Managing Director of Galloway & Associates, a UK and Asia-based strategy consultancy specialising in international food and drink markets, and Partner of Beverage Japan magazine.
Fraser McKevitt
Head of Retail and Consumer Insight at Kantar Worldpanel
In over a decade at Kantar Worldpanel, Fraser McKevitt has helped advise some of the country's biggest brands and supermarkets.
Simon Wainwright
Director of Insight at IGD
Simon joined IGD in 2017 to lead the Retail teams research and coverage on the UK multiples, focusing on the strategies being used to meet current and future consumer needs.
Simon’s 20+ years’ experience in Insight & Research has spanned both Retail & Manufacturing, having worked at Tesco and more recently Burtons Biscuits. Simon has also spent a significant amount of his career agency side delivering insight programs for many UK retailers and manufacturers. Simon holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Surrey as well as Diploma in Market Research (Distinction) from the University of Westminster
Jamal Benmiloud
NED at Huel and adviser to AB InBev and Suntory
Jamal Benmiloud, former marketing leader at both Red Bull and Monster Energy, and the co-author of Brand Love - How to build a brand worth talking about.
Zak Normandin
Founder & CEO of Iris Nova (DIRTY LEMON, The Drug Store)
Zak Normandin is an award-winning entrepreneur disrupting the way businesses create, communicate and deliver consumer goods.
Zak has a unique understanding for the way people, brands and technology interact. As Founder and CEO of Iris Nova, the parent company of DIRTY LEMON and The Drug Store, he is reinventing the traditional CPG business model. Iris Nova utilizes a direct-to-consumer SMS-based ordering platform to bypass existing distribution inefficiencies and improve how consumers find and purchase beverages. Normandin is building the beverage company of the future, expanding and applying the proprietary platform to a portfolio of innovative beverage brands that meet the rapidly evolving preferences of the modern consumer.
Backed by A-List celebrities and business leaders alike, Iris Nova and its brand properties are recognized nationally by media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Bloomberg and Vogue.
Krishna Kothari
Chief Execuitve Officer of Bizom, UK
Krishna Kothari is an analytics veteran with 20 years of experience across multiple industries including CPG, Retail, Banking & Insurance.
Simon Johnson
Insight and Advisory Director at Zenith Global Ltd
Simon is experienced in business planning, competitor analysis, distributor recommendations, pricing and promotion recommendations, route to market analysis and market quantification.
Prior to joining Zenith Simon worked as a Business Manager for an International Development organisation and as a Business Analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Simon holds a BA Hons in English Literature from the University of Canterbury.
Anne Wong - Erven
Insight and Advisory Director at Zenith Global Ltd
Anne Wong-Erven is Zenith’s Insight & Advisory Director. She is responsible for leading the Insights and Advisory team.
Anne has undertaken in-depth commercial feasibility studies in North America, Europe and Africa. Prior to joining Zenith in January 2015, Anne has over ten years of experience within the Canadian and UK food and drink industry in supply chain and strategic purchasing, and account management roles. Anne holds an MBA degree from the University of Bath and Honours Business Administration degree from the Western University, Ivey Business School.
Robin Bell
Senior Consultant at Zenith Global Ltd
Robin has 15 years strategic marketing and product development experience in the food, beverage and consumer leisure goods industries.
Robin has successfully led new market entry projects for U.S. consumer durables business, The Jarden Corporation, enabling its portfolio of leisure brands to enter and maximise European market opportunity, creating and defining marketing strategies from the ground up across both trade and retail channels, to quickly gain traction and deliver sales. Most recently Robin has launched both food service and direct to consumer food and beverage product ranges into new and existing markets for Apetito AG and Kerry Foods, executing product and route to market strategies to outperform forecasts.
Robin holds an MSc in International Management and an MBA in International Business.
Yumiko Wilkey
Senior Insight at Zenith Global Ltd
Yumiko is Senior Insight Manager within the Insight & Advisory team at Zenith Global. Yumiko joined the company in 2010 as a Market Analyst for research and consultancy projects.
Yumiko is an expert with 9 years’ experience in managing global market intelligence projects within the food and beverage industry, with a focus on the Asia Pacific region. Yumiko holds a BSc Hons in Business Studies, a BA in Asian and European Studies and is fluent in English and Japanese.
Jerry Fowden
Executive Chairman at Cott Corportaion
Mr. Fowden is Executive Chairman of Cott Corporation (NYSE: COT, TSX:BCB) & was previously its CEO from 2009 until 2019.
Jerry Fowden joined Cott in September 2007.
Prior to joining Cott, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Trader Media Group, undertook various roles with AB InBev, including global Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the AB InBev subsidiary Bass Brewers, was Managing Director of the Rank Group's Hospitality Division and served on the Rank Group Plc's Board of Directors, was Chief Executive Officer of Hero AG's European beverage operations, and undertook various international roles within PepsiCo's beverage operations across the US, Europe, Middle East and Africa, as well as having sales, marketing and management roles with Mars pet care operations.
Jerry Fowden is a member of the Board of Constellation Brands & a member of it’s Governance Committee as well as Chairman of it’s Remuneration Committee.
Jerry Fowden received Ernst & Young’s 2016 National Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Consumer & Retail Sector as a results of Cott’s successful transformation well as Institutional Investors 2018 & 2019 Awards for Most Honored Company & Best Midcap CEO.
Shaun Browne
Managing Director & Co-Head of UK Corporate Finance at Houlihan Lokey
Mr Browne is Co-Head of UK Corporate Finance based in our London office, working with all industry teams, as well as Finance Sponsors Coverage Group and Capital Markets.
Mr Browne was previously Managing Director of McQueen, the London-based investment bank focused on the consumer sectors, which he co-founded in 2002. McQueen grew to be one of the most successful M&A advisors to the European consumer sector prior to its acquisition by Houlihan Lokey in 2015. Prior to McQueen, Mr Browne co-founded the Consumer M&A team at HSBC (1999-2002) and was CEO of HSBC Investment Bank in India (1996-1999). He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London in 1988 and joined HSBC in 1992.
Ross Colbert
Managing Director and Global Sector Head - Beverages at KPMG
Location and hotel
Venue
The Congress Centre offers an ideally located and contemporary venue in the heart of London’s West End. It is situated close to Tottenham Court Road underground station, from which you use exit 3.
Address: Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS
Contact: +44 (0)207 467 1318
Website: www.congresscentre.co.uk
Dress code: Business suit or smart casual
Accommodation
A room allocation is available for delegates at My Bloomsbury Hotel. Rates are valid on bookings made by before 16 March and will be offered on a first come, first served basis.
Rates for Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 May
Standard single £195 inc VAT, standard double £215 inc VAT, breakfast £15 inc VAT per person.
Address: 11-13 Bayley Street, London WC1B 3HD
Website: www.myhotels.com/bloomsbury/
To book, please contact hotel direct at res@myhotels.com and quote CZEN1405
| Pay by 30 Oct Super saver | Standard | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full Day | Per delegate | £495.00 | £575.00 |
| 2 for 1 | £575.00 | ||
| Concession* | £195.00 | £225.00 | |
| 15 & 16 May | £800.00 | £900.00 | |
| With VAT | Per delegate | £594.00 | £690.00 |
| 2 for 1 | £690.00 | ||
| Concession* | £234.00 | £270.00 | |
| 15 & 16 May | £960.00 | £1,080.00 |
To register for the UK Soft Drinks Conference on 15 May, please contact events@zenithglobal.com and you will be given a discount code on completion of your booking for Global Beverage Insights on 16 May.
Substitutions will be accepted at any time. Cancellations will be subject to £80 + VAT administration charge and cannot be made after 16 March. Bookings are subject to Zenith Global Event terms and conditions, details of which are available on Zenith Global's website. All delegates must pay UK VAT at prevailing rate, currently 20%.
*The Concession rate will be offered to start-ups and early stage entrepreneurs. To be eligible, companies must be within two years of formation and with annual sales below £500,000. For more information and to book at this rate, please contact
Fiona Herrington at fherrington@zenithglobal.com or call +44 (0)1225 327903 or
Christine Robinson at crobinson@zenithglobal.com or call +44 (0)1225 327900
Sponsorship
Interested in sponsoring?
We have a range of packages and exhibitor display opportunities available which will help offer a unique and effective opportunity to showcase your products and services to a highly captive audience. We are happy to tailor a bespoke package to suit your needs and budget.
Packages can include:
- Table top display in the refreshment/networking area providing a high level of branding
- The opportunity to take full advantage of excellent networking opportunities
- Exclusivity in your sector (platinum level sponsorship only)
- Presentation opportunity within the event programme
- Promotion of your company through branding on all marketing materials including Zenith Global's marketing emails, website and Twitter account
- Company branding on the stage backdrop during the event
- The opportunity to distribute marketing material/products at delegate places
- A chance to build your company profile further through inclusion in Zenith Global press releases, social media activity and in the download material post event
- Additional delegates places at discounted rates
- The opportunity to host a breakfast meeting, drinks reception, delegate workshop
- Sponsored tweets from Zenith Global's company account
- The opportunity for a live Q&A with the audience during the sponsor presentation through an interactive poll
- Category sponsorship of the InnoBev Awards
For more information, please contact
Maxine Harle at mharle@zenithglobal.com or call +44 (0)1225 327941
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