'We are capturing premium and mainstream opportunities and building
scale in priority markets while continuing our journey to create
a leaner, focused and more agile organisation.'
Richard Rushton, Group CEO
Distell is the only South African-owned and operated alcoholic beverages company and Africa's leading producer and marketer of wines, spirits, ciders and RTD's, sold across the world.
We are becoming a geographically diverse group that is building long-term platforms to unlock growth in various geographies.
Markets outside of South Africa are contributing almost a quarter of revenue.
Financial performance:
CAGR:
+37,0%
CAGR:
+9,0%
Distell's unique competitive advantage is our balanced category spread
Distell's wines, with their rich heritage, have built significant mainstream and premium opportunities and are sold on every continent.
Amarula is ranked as the world's second-largest cream liqueur and Distell is South Africa's leading producer of brandy.
We pioneered the cider category in South Africa to become the second-largest producer of ciders worldwide.
Resonate with a broad spectrum of consumers with different
Play accorss the
Are enjoyed by
We are building an empowered, high-performance organisational culture that encourages innovation from a diverse pool of talented professionals.
We find opportunities at each point along our value chain to do more, be better and foster positive change in the lives of our stakeholders.
Electricity usage
12,2%
per litre of production year on year
Greenhouse gas emissions
3,3%
year on year
Water usage
14,3%
per litre of production year on year
We are a proud African alcoholic beverage company with heritage, global reach, world class people, and the ability to do extraordinary things!
We craft distinctive alcoholic beverage brands, enhance memorable moments, and inspire responsible consumption. The value we create will enrich the lives of our people, shareholders, and the communities within which we live and work.
We exist to provide unique moments of social enjoyment through the responsible marketing of well-crafted wines, spirits, ciders and RTDs.
International
Africa
South Africa
The strategic role of our international region is to:
We aim to accelerate sustainable growth in the region to become the continent’s leading player in wines, spirits and non-beer RTDs.
We aspire to increase our value market share of the total alcoholic beverage market in South Africa by 50 bps per annum.
Top-down financial and non-financial strategic goals for the Group and key business units developed for a five-year horizon:
These priorities are underpinned and enabled by business transformation initiatives.
The principles that guide the way we execute our strategy:
Gender: Male
Tenure and committees: Appointed to the board, remuneration committee and the nomination committee in 2012 and as a member of the investment subcommittee in 2015. Appointed as chairperson of the board in 2016 and as chairperson of the investment subcommittee in 2015
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, international business, general business, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, fast-moving consumer goods and governance
Other: Chief executive officer of Remgro and a director of, inter alia, RCL Foods, RMI Holdings Limited and Mediclinic International PLC
Independent non-executive
Gender: Female
Tenure and committees: Appointed to the board in 2005, as a member of the audit committee in 2006, as chairperson of the social and ethics committee in 2012, as a member of the risk and compliance committee in 2016 as a member of the investment subcommittee in 2015 and as a member of the remuneration committee and the nomination committee in 2017.
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, general business, mergers and acquisitions, transformation, risk management and governance.
Other: Investment executive at WIPHOLD and non-executive director of various WIPHOLD investee companies.
Gender: Male
Tenure and committees: Appointed to the board in November 2015, as member of the audit committee in 2016, as chairman of the risk and compliance committee in 2016 and as a member of the social and ethics committee in 2016.
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, general business, governance, mergers and acquisitions, risk management.
Other: Chairperson of Plexus Holdings, an investment management business he founded in 1995. He also serves as director of Professional Provident Society (PPS) Insurance Company and PPS Investments. He is a member of the advisory board of the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), chairperson of the audit and risk committee and a member of the investment committee of Stellenbosch University. Additionally, he is professor extraordinaire at the USB, Honorary Consul General of Slovenia for South Africa and Deputy Dean of the Consular Corps of Cape Town.
Gender: Male
Tenure and committees: Appointed to the board, and as a member of the investment subcommittee in 2019.
Expertise: International business, general business, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, fast-moving consumer goods
Other: Chairman Enactus, Chairman Mr Green Africa, Chairman Foods United.
Gender: Male
Tenure and committees: Appointed to the board, as alternate director for JJ Durand, in 2014, to the investment subcommittee in 2015 and to the risk and compliance committee in 2016. He attends the audit, remuneration and nomination committee meetings as an invitee.
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, general business, mergers and acquisitions, risk management and governance.
Other: Board member of RCL Foods Limited. He is currently Head of Corporate Finance at Remgro.
Independent non-executive
Gender: Male
Tenure and committees: Appointed to the Distell board in 2000.
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, international and general business.
Other: Group chief executive officer of Community Investment Holdings Group, non-executive chairman of Schneider Electric, non-executive deputy chairman of Jasco Electronics Holdings and non-executive director of Air Liquide Healthcare and of Afrocentric Limited.
Gender: Female
Tenure: Appointed to the board in 2015 and as member of the risk and compliance committee in 2016 and the audit committee in 2018.
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, international business, general business, marketing, risk management and governance.
Other: Director on the boards of FirstRand and FinMark Trust.
Independent non-executive*
Gender: Male
Tenure and committees: Appointed to the board in 2011 and as a member of the investment subcommittee in 2015.
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, international business, general business, mergers and acquisitions, retail operations, marketing, manufacturing, risk management, legal, human resources, sustainability and governance
Other: Founder director of PSG Group, Capitec Bank Holdings and Zeder Investments. He is also non-executive director of Kaap Agri Investments and serves on selected audit and remuneration committees.
Gender: Male
Tenure and committees: Appointed to the board in 2008 and as lead independent director in 2016. He was appointed as chairman of the remuneration committee in 2013 and as chairman of the nomination committee in 2017. He has been a member of the investment subcommittee since 2015
Expertise: International business, general business, mergers and acquisitions, marketing and fast-moving consumer goods.
Other: Retired managing director of SABMiller Africa and Asia, where he served on several boards of SABMiller subsidiaries, and was also an executive committee member of SABMiller PLC. He is also a director of Standard Bank.
Gender: Male
Tenure: Richard was appointed to the board in 2013 following various leadership roles with SABMiller in Africa, Asia and Latin America since 1997. He initially held leadership positions at Barclays and Adcock Ingram before joining SABMiller. Richard’s role is to ensure the company delivers on its key strategic objectives and to build a high-performance culture within the company.
Expertise: International business, mergers and acquisitions, marketing and fast-moving consumer goods.
Gender: Female
Tenure and committees: Appointed to the board in 2008, as chairperson of the audit committee in 2009, as member of the risk and compliance committee in 2016 and investment subcommittee in 2015.
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, international business, general business, mergers and acquisitions, transformation, risk management and governance.
Other: Founder, director and chief financial officer of the Universal Healthcare group of companies and formerly a director of WIPHOLD and Concor. She was also a member of WIPHOLD’s audit committee and chaired the Concor audit committee.
Gender: Male
Tenure: Lucas joined Distell in 2014 from Remgro where he was an investment executive overseeing a specific portfolio of investments since 2008. Lucas was appointed to his current position in September 2015. Following the executive restructure in February 2019, he is oversees the financial sustainability and growth of Distell through financial planning and reporting and has taken on new portfolios such as mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, Governance and risk management. Previous oversight of Information Technology has been moved to Corporate Services. Audit, Risk & investment committee invitee.
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, general business, mergers and acquisitions, valuation, risk management and governance
Gender: Female
Tenure and committees: Lizelle joined Distell in 2012. She performs all statutory company secretarial functions and is also responsible for the company’s forensic compliance, risk management and strategic financial projects .
Expertise: Retail operations, fast-moving consumer goods, risk management, legal and governance.
Gender: Female
Tenure: Bridgitte joined Distell in 2016 and is responsible for the overall reputation management, stakeholder and corporate citizenship strategy of the company. She has multi-industry experience in different functional, business and executive roles.
Expertise: General business, fast-moving consumer goods, manufacturing, transformation, risk management and sustainability.
Gender: Male
Tenure: Wim joined the Group in 1994, was appointed head of new business development in 2007 and took up his present position in July 2010. He is responsible for our business functions in South Africa and BNLS countries, including sales, distribution and marketing operations.
Expertise: General business, mergers and acquisitions, and manufacturing.
Gender: Male
Tenure: Donovan joined Distell as Marketing Director: Southern Africa in 2010 post various leadership roles at BAT. In 2015 he moved on to head up the Africa business, setting the transition strategy for the business unit focusing on the portfolio, local production and route-to-market platforms in key markets. Donovan took over the Global Marketing function at the end of 2017 and transitioned the role into Growth & Innovation for the group focused on: transformational strategy, foresight and insight development, health & profitability of the brand portfolio, break out innovation, digital transformation and marketing capability development.
Expertise: Africa, general management, marketing & sales, innovation & digital transformation, human resources, agile leadership.
Gender: Male
Tenure: Appointed to current position on 1 April 2019. Not a board member. Career highlights include Head of HR – BAT Zimbabwe, HR Director RACEC, Head of HR Distell SA
Expertise: General business, fast-moving consumer goods and human resources
Gender: Male
Tenure: Kershen joined the Distell team in July 2015 as the Financial Manager in New Germany. In April 2016 his skills and expertise were sourced at Head Office: SA as their Financial Manager. He was promoted to Director: Corporate Services as of the 1st April 2019. This newly established Corporate Services function is the catalyst for Distell’s digital transformation. The vision is to be a customer centric, digitally enabled platform that deliverers exceptional customer experiencing and drives Distell into the future.
Expertise: Financial markets and investments, general business and risk management
Gender: Female
Tenure: Kate is a member of Distell’s executive committee and is the Managing Director of its Venture Businesses. Her portfolio includes Distell’s International Spirits business, Libertas Vineyards and Estates Premium wine business and International Export business, Henry Taylor and Ries. She is responsible for executing key strategic changes within these portfolios under a renewed operating model. Prior to this role she was Director Corporate Development, responsible for corporate strategy and M&A. Kate has a vast depth of experience in strategy development & execution, business management, mergers and acquisitions, business transformation, deal integration and deal origination. She joined Distell in 2003, prior to which she worked for a global investment bank in London.
Expertise: Business management, mergers and acquisitions, business transformation, deal integration and deal origination.
Gender: Male
Tenure: JP joined Distell in 2014 after a long career at British American Tobacco South Africa (BAT SA). He is responsible for the full spectrum of human resources activities across Distell Group.
Expertise: Human resources
Gender: Male
Tenure: Johan joined Distell in 2016 as the head of manufacturing and was appointed as director: supply chain in 2017. He is responsible for optimising Group supply chain operations across procurement, planning, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics and technical centers of excellence (intrinsics, engineering, capital projects and safety, health, environment, risk and quality). Johan has multi-industry experience at operational, business and executive level. Johan began his career at Anglo American where he held various line and project management roles. He then joined SAB where he held manufacturing and general management roles before moving to Cadbury/Kraft Foods overseeing the supply chain for sub-Saharan Africa and held general management roles at Anglo Vaal Industries.
Expertise: General business, fast-moving consumer goods, integrated supply chains, manufacturing and operations
Gender: Male
Tenure: Len joined Distell as head sales and operations in March 2017 before moving on to his current role as managing director for Africa in May 2018. Before joining Distell, Len held various leadership roles within SABMiller of which the latest was managing director for Namibia.
Expertise: General business, mergers and acquisitions, wholesale and retail operations, trade marketing and marketing, sales and operational, people and team capability building, commercial and business acumen.
| Avior Capital Markets | Warwick Bam | 021 440 5561 | warwick@avior.co.za |
|---|---|---|---|
| Investec | Anthony Geard | +27 21 416 1431 | Anthony.Geard@investec.co.za |
| Renaissance Capital | Siphelele Mhlongo | 011 750-1420 | SMhlongo@rencap.com |
Restructure of Distell’s multi-tiered ownership structure
Lizelle Malan (Group Company Secretary) | Frank Ford (Investor Relations)