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QUINTESSENTIAL BRANDS GROUP APPOINTS NEW CFO AS IT EYES INTERNATIONAL GROWTH

Rebecca Eneh 2020-02-25T16:21:46+00:00 February 25th, 2020|0 Comments

QUINTESSENTIAL BRANDS BOOSTS UK RETAIL TEAM WITH SENIOR COMMERCIAL & MARKETING HIRES

Rebecca Eneh 2020-02-11T12:37:24+00:00 February 11th, 2020|0 Comments

BLOOM GIN TEAMS UP WITH MALMAISON FOR ON-PACK PROMOTION

Rebecca Eneh 2020-02-07T09:56:46+00:00 February 7th, 2020|0 Comments

SPEND LESS TIME POURING AND MORE TIME PLAYING THIS VALENTINE’S DAY THANKS TO BLOOM GIN

Rebecca Eneh 2020-02-07T09:51:14+00:00 February 7th, 2020|0 Comments

GET A #BITOFBALANCE THIS JANUARY WITH GIN YOGA

Rebecca Eneh 2020-01-17T16:18:14+00:00 January 17th, 2020|0 Comments

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Rebecca Eneh 2019-12-16T12:48:47+00:00 December 16th, 2019|0 Comments

THE QUINTESSENTIAL BRANDS TEAM SCOOPS TWO TOP INDUSTRY AWARDS

Rebecca Eneh 2019-12-06T11:38:05+00:00 December 4th, 2019|0 Comments

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Best of luck to the @OPIHRGin Ocean Racing Team who are braving the waters this week at #CowesWeek2019. Here’s today’s team ready and raring to go! #OPIHRGin #OPIHRWorld #CowesWeek #Sailing #Gin

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Storms? What storms - nothing’s going to stop us delivering Opihr treats to the deserving crews braving it on the water this weekend! #Cowes2019 #opihr #spiritofadventure #gin #britishsummer

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Remember when festive advent calendars were all about chocolate? We love these advent calendars from @masterofmalt - a curated selection of some of the best gins and whiskeys around - and with some familiar faces, including @thomasdakingin, @dublinlibertieswhiskey, @deadrabbitwhiskey & @dublinerwhiskey.

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January is a notoriously quiet month for the UK on-trade, so this year we teamed up with @GreeneKing_Official to host a series of Gin Yoga classes in celebration of Greenall's Wild Berry and Greenall's Blueberry listings as Gin of the Month. Have a watch of this video to see how our budding yogis got on...

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A three month expedition across three continents and over 20 countries in an original 1955 Series 1 Land Rover - @thelastoverland is underway and @OPIHRGin is going along for the ride, tracking the Ancient Spice Route where we source the finest handpicked botanicals for our Oriental Spiced Gin. Make sure you're following @OPIHRGin to join the journey.

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Team player extraordinaire at Quintessential Brands, Dermot Hegarty of G&J Distillers!

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We’re at the Moscow Bar Show today - if you’re here too, pop by and taste the original London Dry Gin, Greenall’s, with Dmitry!

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It’s been a fascinating couple of days with great conversations and inspiring ideas aplenty as our UK, Ireland, EMEA and Travel Retail commercial teams gathered together with central teams in Manchester this week, working together on plans to accelerate our growth in some of our key markets. We have so many talented and passionate people in our business, committed to unlocking the great potential that remains for us - thanks to everyone for their contribution this week, here’s to turning those ideas into further commercial success this year and beyond!

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We’re delighted to welcome our new UK Business Unit Director, Liz Peck, to Quintessential Brands. Liz will be leading the team managing our Grocery customers across the UK, ensuring we’re providing our customers with unbeatable spirits solutions and helping them to reap the commercial rewards our premium brands offer.

Liz joins the UK leadership team at a hugely exciting time for our business as we look to build on the initial success we’ve had in the UK to date. Here’s to unlocking greater success in 2020

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Our communications team has spent the day with UK media at the @xmasjuly Power Pitching event, showing off some of our latest launches including @drinkskinnymoo and @dublinerwhiskey which makes its debut in @sainsburys this month. Thanks to all the journalists who came to see us - we hope you enjoy the goody bags!

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Top marks to @doonfootdaytoday for this amazing in-store display featuring our new Greenall’s Wild Berry price-marked packs, which are now available in the UK convenience channel!

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This afternoon we welcomed a very special guest to @thedublinlibertiesdistillery – fellow Dubliner, Dermot Kennedy. Dermot’s joining our neighbours at the Aloft Dublin City this evening to host an intimate gig as part of their Homecoming Tour, and we’ll be livestreaming his performance from the distillery for fans who don’t have access to the event.

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Last night we were crowned Travel Retail Master 2019 at the @spiritsbusiness #travelretailmasters in Cannes! The win followed three of our brands, including @drinkskinnymoo @bloomgin and @dublinerwhiskey, winning masters awards and a whopping 14 of our brands receiving gold awards! What a way to begin our week at #tfwacannes2019

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Congratulations to our CMO, Shane Hoyne who completed the Dublin Marathon yesterday. He was running to raise money for ground breaking research to find a cure for NKH (nonketotic hyperglycinemia), a rare but terminal metabolic disorder, so if you would like to donate, please follow the link in our bio.