{"id":38129,"date":"2022-08-24T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T08:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/?p=38129"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:54:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:54:26","slug":"pepsi-green-beverages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/2022\/08\/24\/pepsi-green-beverages\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pepsi-Cola director appointed Green Beverages chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greenbeveragesgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drinks company<\/a> Green Beverages has appointed Howard Prince-Wright as chairman with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Prince-Wright has over 30 years experience in the industry, having worked at Pepsi-Cola International as a director. He also held five CFO positions at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/\">alcohol company<\/a> Diageo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The appointment comes at an important stage of Green Beverage\u2019s global expansion strategy, the company claims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent months, Green Cola has expanded its footprint in the US through a new agreement with Walmart.com and has secured listings in the UK with Sainsbury\u2019s, Amazon, and Holland &amp; Barratt via its UK licensee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/2022\/08\/24\/tuc-increase-wage\/\">TUC urges government to increase minimum wage to \u00a315 an hour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m delighted to join Green Beverages Group at such an exciting time for the business,&#8221; Prince-Wright said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The group owns an exceptional portfolio of brands, is run by a highly skilled team, and has clear growth potential. I look forward to supporting the leadership team to expand the business and realise the Group\u2019s significant global opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green Beverages CEO Periklis Venieris added: &#8220;Howard\u2019s blend of senior financial experience and background working within consumer facing brands makes him a strong fit for Green Beverages Group to help us drive forward our ambition to become one of the world\u2019s leading soft drinks groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m excited to work with someone of Howard\u2019s calibre and established track record of delivering value and growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/subscribe-to-newsletter\/\" data-ol-has-click-handler=\"\">Click here to sign up to Grocery Gazette\u2019s free daily email newsletter<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinks company Green Beverages has appointed Howard Prince-Wright as chairman with immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":38138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3934],"tags":[64,5192,4059,9203,816,7424,10392,10391,525],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38137,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38129\/revisions\/38137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}