Donald Nelson has been elected as the sixty first president of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling and is the first to come from New Zealand. Donald is the Technical Best Practices Director for Lion Nathan in Auckland and has over 30 years’ experience in the brewing industry.

In July 2011, Dr Carsten Zufall has been accepted as a reviewer for the scientific online journal BrewingScience (www.brewingscience.de).

Charlie Bamforth, the Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences in the Department of Food Science and Technology, has been selected to receive the 2011 Award of Distinction from the American Society of Brewing Chemists and the society’s board of directors.

Paul Corbett, MD of Charles Faram & Co Ltd and Chairman of BFBi for 2010 & 2011 handed over the chain of office to National Vice Chairman, Alistair McInnes, MD of Centriflow Services Ltd at his Chairman’s Dinner, held at Williams F1 Centre, 9th June 2011.

From services to success

Anuga, the trade fair for the Food and Beverage World, will take place in Cologne from October 8th to 12th, 2011. About 6500 exhibitors are expected, who will present new concepts and products for trade visitors in the catering sector – the overall visitor count ran to 150,000 in 2009. Anuga is subdivided into ten separate fairs, one of which is Anuga Drinks. BRAUWELT International spoke to Peter Grothues, Vice-President Food, Technol­ogy & Environment at Koelnmesse GmbH, about opportunities and business potential of the fair for breweries and beverage producers.

Mr Ulrich Dieter and Mr Thomas Lehmann are the two new Managing Directors of Ziemann Group. Mr Andreas Weinlein’s successor, Mr Ulrich Dieter has been responsible for the areas of Human Resources, Purchasing, IT and Quality Management since June 1, 2011. As of July 1, 2011 Mr Thomas Lehmann will be the new Managing Director for Sales and Marketing.

The Brewers Association (BA) has announced a new board of directors in March 2011.

Simon Spillane, now Communications Senior Advisor for the Brewers of Europe, Brussels/Belgium, succeeds Niall Doheny, Head of Communications, who left the organization in April 2011.

As of Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Mr. Joachim Gunkel is no longer a member of the Management Board. The relationship was terminated by mutual consent. There had been differences of opinion regarding the management style.

His life is the stuff of legend: from humble milkman to world-renowned saviour of the centuries-old unfiltered Belgian witbier style. Pierre Celis had vision, determination, perseverance ... and a sure touch for picking the wrong partners.

Specialist plastics packaging technology business Petainer has promoted two sales managers to newly created posts as regional sales directors.

As of April 1, 2011, Cosimo Trimigliozzi will lead the newly formed Wild Flavors International Business Unit, which has been created in addition to the two existing operating business units of the Wild Flavors GmbH: Wild Flavors Europe GmbH, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and Wild Affiliated Holding, Inc., headquartered in Erlanger, Kentucky, USA. The Business Unit will be comprised of the current Wild business in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. It is headquartered in Sisseln, Switzerland and supported by the local Wild production facilities in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Beijing (China).

2nd International Brewing Convention, Manchester, UK

Everyone in the brewing industry who wants to manage their companies successfully has to stay ahead of developing trends. This is also mirrored in the motto of the second International Brewing Convention, “Ahead of the Curve”, which took place in Manchester, UK, from 18 to 20 October 2010 and was jointly organised by the Institute of Brewing (IBD) and the Brewing, Food & Beverage Industry Suppliers´ Association (BFBi).

Shareholders and Supervisory Board of KHS GmbH have appointed Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Niemeyer (43) as CEO of KHS GmbH, effective as of April 1, 2011. Prof. Niemeyer has been a member of the KHS Executive Management Board since September 14, 2009 and has been previously responsible for the technology division. He will continue in this position in addition to his duties and responsibilities as CEO. The present CEO, Roland Flach (66), will be retiring from this office on March 31, 2011.