Marie Brizard Wine Spirits announced the appointment of Andrew Highcock to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Andrew Highcock is a recognized and highly experienced spirits industry executive. He holds a degree from Cambridge University, and began his career at Arthur Andersen in the United Kingdom, moving from there to a career in the consumer goods sector when he joined the Beecham Group.

Later, he joined Diageo where he held several positions, starting with Marketing Director for Central Europe, followed by General Manager of the Hungarian subsidiary, and finally marketing director of Diageo in France. He then joined Maxxium, first to manage the southern Europe cluster (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Turkey) and later assumed the role of President of the company's Canadian subsidiary. Finally, he joined the SABMiller Group as General Manager of the Slovakian subsidiary, followed by a role as President of the Romanian subsidiary, and as President of the Polish subsidiary, his current position.

He is expected to join MBWS on 29th October 2018. Marie Brizard Wine Spirits also announced the appointment of Jacques Tierny as an independent non-executive director of MBWS. Given Mr. Tierny's skills and experience, the Board unanimously decided to appoint him President of the Audit committee.

Jacques Tierny was successively Deputy CFO of Michelin, CFO and Executive Deputy CEO of the Casino Groupe, and CFO of Gemalto. The appointment of Mr. Tierny follows the resignation for personal reasons of Benoit Ghiot, a member of MBWS' Board of Directors since 16 September 2014.