Asahi Beverages

Celebrating Pride Month across Asahi Beverages, Happy Pride! #pride@asahi #pride #diversity #inclusion #LGBTQ+

It was a great pleasure to welcome all our 2024 intake of Asahi graduates to Melbourne for our mid-year graduate event. As part of the cross-functional learning that the Asahi Graduate Program offers, the team had the opportunity to immerse themselves in sales and engage with our customers in the field. Their visit concluded with a tour of Abbotsford Brewery, where they learned about the brewing process from one of their peers who is currently based at Abbotsford. These events bring young people with diverse backgrounds and interests together to share experiences and build networks that many will carry forward throughout their careers. If you, or someone you know would like to know more about the 2025 Asahi Graduate Program, applications open soon! Register your expression of interest: https://lnkd.in/gGMsvHXu #graduates #asahibeverages 

We are thrilled to announce the permanent appointments of Ben North as Group Chief Financial Officer and John Kelvie as Group Chief Digital & Information Officer for Asahi Beverages Oceania. Ben has been with our business for five years, and John for two years – and nothing makes us happier than promoting our own people from our exceptional internal talent pool. Both Ben and John are now members of the Executive Leadership Team under the stewardship of our Group Chief Executive Officer Amanda Sellers. #asahibeverages #executiveteam #talent

We’re proud to have teamed up with Coles Group and FightMND, a non-profit organisation that is fighting the Beast that is Motor Neurone Disease (MND) by raising vital funds for research and care initiatives through the Big Freeze 10 campaign.   Until 21 June 2024, Asahi Beverages is contributing 10 cents from every purchase of Pepsi and Solo 1.25L varieties and all Bubly 8pk cans sold at Coles Supermarkets and Coles Online to the Big Freeze 10 campaign.   This donation will be directed to fund research projects that focus on accelerating new MND treatments and driving discoveries towards a cure.   More about Big Freeze 10: https://fightmnd.org.au/ #FightMND #BigFreeze10 #partnership

Drum roll please…and the Global Asahi 2024 AGP AWARDS Grand Prix winner is … the Circular Plastics Australia PET Team. The Asahi Beverages Circular Plastics Australia (CPA) PET Team was thrilled and humbled last week to receive global Asahi’s highest internal accolade, the AGP Awards Grand Prix Award. This was for their work partnering with Pact Group Holdings Ltd, Cleanaway Waste Management , Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Government to establish two PET recycling plants in Albury (NSW) and Altona (Vic) that aim to create a circular economy for PET bottles in Australia. Staged in Melbourne last week, this is the first time the AGP Awards have been held outside Japan, so it was especially exciting to have an Australian project crowned the overall winner this year.   Competing against nine outstanding projects from around the world, the CPA project stood out as the embodiment of the Asahi Group Philosophy (AGP) demonstrating ‘Challenge and Innovation’, Excellence in Quality’ and ‘Shared Inspiration’. Congratulations to the CPA team. The global AGP Grand Prix Award is fitting recognition for a world class team building a world class capability in Australia that will benefit future generations. Asahi Group Holdings #GlobalExcellence #AGPAWARDS #CircularEconomyLeadership

Cascade - Standing Proud for 200 years! Politicians, brewery workers and business representatives gathered today at the beautiful Cascade Brewery to toast two centuries of endurance, innovation, and the spirit of Tasmania. The Pale Ale flowed as Cascade celebrated with live music, the cutting of a birthday cake and a toast to 200 years of Standing Proud. To mark this special occasion, our Asahi Beverages CEO, Amanda Sellers, was joined by Atsushi Katsuki, President and CEO of Asahi Group Holdings, and members of his team, together with Tasmanian Premier the Hon Jeremy Rockliff MP, the Leader of the Opposition the Hon Dean Winter MP and the Deputy Lord Mayor of Hobart, Councillor Dr Zelinda Sherlock as we celebrated Cascade’s journey from humble sawmill to Tasmanian icon and Australia’s oldest brewery. Cheers to our oldest and without a doubt, most beautiful brewery!

Asahi Beverages partners with South Australian distillery Never Never Distilling Co. to shake up and stir Australian premium spirits. We are happy to announce the acquisition of super-premium distillery Never Never, which is the home of one of Australia’s most awarded gin brands. Never Never launched in 2016 when three mates - George Georgiadis, Tim Boast and Sean Baxter - turned their passion into a business and started distilling gin out of an Adelaide shed. The brand has since picked up a swag of awards – including World’s Best at the World Gin Awards and three consecutive wins as Champion Australian distiller at the Australian Distilled Spirits Awards. Asahi Beverages Group CEO Amanda Sellers said: “We are acquiring Never Never because we recognise Never Never’s incredible brand and success. Never Never will help complements our position as the multi-beverage manufacturer of choice for our customers and consumers.” We are excited to have the team at Never Never joining our wider Asahi Beverages family. #WelcomeToTheAsahiFamily

Cheers to Victorian Barley Farmers! Last Thursday, around 30 of Victoria’s top barley farmers gathered at Geelong’s GMHBA Stadium to celebrate their landmark partnership with Asahi Beverages and toast the central role they play in brewing some of Australia’s finest beers. Asahi Beverages, owner of Carlton & United Breweries, uses around 40,000 tonnes of barley grown by Victorian farmers each year to brew our beloved drops such as VB, Carlton Draught, and Great Northern at our Abbotsford and Laverton breweries. During the event, attendees heard from Asahi Beverages Group CEO, Amanda Sellers, “It is a privilege to have access to Victorian barley, which is among the world’s best. Our direct relationship with growers helps ensure we only use the best barley. The barley program provides us with clear oversight of the growing process and we can trace barley right back to the paddock.” “Our relationship with our farming partners and rural communities is extremely important.” The program is delivered in Victoria by Riordan Grain Services. #LandmarkPartnerships #VictorianFarmers

Making great beer!   Around three years ago, we elevated our partnership with Victorian barley farmers to help us brew even better beers.   We now have a direct purchasing relationship with our barley farmers, giving us clear oversight of the barley growing process and the ability to trace grains back to the paddock they grew in. This helps us ensure we use only the best to brew our iconic beers such as VB, Great Northern and Carlton Draught.   Our farming partners also get the confidence and financial security to invest in new technology and make improvements in farming sustainability and efficiency.   It’s a win for us, a win for beer lovers and a win for farmers and their communities.   On Sunday, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)'s Landline program broadcast a national story about the new partnership. To view the story and learn more about the partnership, please click here - https://lnkd.in/gG_ZnVTC   Riordan Grain Services, Asahi Group Holdings #GrowerPartnerships #abclandline #sustainableagriculture

Today, we welcomed Olympic Gold medallist and the first Aboriginal woman elected to Federal Parliament, Nova Peris OAM, at our Tullamarine manufacturing site to celebrate International Women’s Day.   The live and virtual session was a great opportunity for everyone to reflect on the progress we are making to create a more inclusive culture at Asahi Beverages and on what each one of us can do to #InspireInclusion.   Happy International Women’s Day!   #asahibeverages #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion #women