Blue Sky Drinks names CEO

Australian spirits concern Blue Sky Drinks has named Paul Slaughter arsenic its main enforcement officer.

The radical said successful a connection the determination comes arsenic it "fast-tracks plans to go Australia's largest autarkic spirits and ready-to-drink business".

Blue Sky Drinks was formed successful October aft acquiring Australian distiller Top Shelf International and section RTD concern Gravity Drinks.

The publicly-listed Top Shelf appointed administrators successful August past twelvemonth to research a recapitalisation oregon merchantability of the Grainshaker vodka business.

Financial presumption of Blue Sky's acquisitions of Top Shelf and Gravity Drinks were not disclosed astatine the time.

Slaughter starts his caller relation astatine the spirits radical this week, Blue Sky said.

He joins the concern from Australian importer and distributor Stellar Distribution, wherever helium was CEO for much than 2 years.

His erstwhile acquisition besides includes being main enforcement astatine Australian beef and seafood processor Harvest Road Group, and section nutrient pies shaper Mrs Mac's.

"It's been a immense six months since the merger (with Gravity Drinks Co. and Top Shelf
International) and we've achieved an tremendous magnitude successful that time, reducing A$10 cardinal ($7m) of our outgo basal and expanding progressive outlets by 50%," laminitis and president Mick Spencer said.

"Paul brings much than 2 decades of enforcement enactment experience, he's led immoderate unthinkable Australian brands done periods of translation and growth, understands analyzable operations and has a proven quality to physique high-performing teams."

Liam Battye and Mr Spencer, 2 of Gravity Drinks' founders, joined the caller Blue Sky Drinks concern erstwhile it launched past year. Battye is caput of operations.

Former Beam Suntory and Sazerac enforcement Ray Noble besides took a spot connected the caller company's board.

Just Drinks has asked Blue Sky for details connected the shareholding operation of the business.

Blue Sky's caller CEO Slaughter said: "I've led oregon worked connected a batch of prime businesses with large radical successful the past, and I tin honestly accidental that this small, but gathering team, punches incredibly supra its weight."

Blue Sky Drinks' portfolio is besides made up of brands specified arsenic Ned whisky and Gravity alcoholic seltzer RTDs.

In its statement, the concern said it was besides preparing to motorboat different agave tone marque called Sollos, which it claims is "Australia's archetypal single-estate agave spirit". The institution is besides owed to unfastened a cellar doorway for the marque successful Whitsundays astatine the extremity of adjacent month.

When Blue Sky Drinks acquired Top Shelf, it besides bought the agave marque Act of Treason. Just Drinks has asked for details connected what has happened to the brand.