Marlborough Wine Estates Group Limited announced the appointment of Andrew Stafford as their new Chief Executive Officer. Andrew comes to the business with over 20 years relevant leadership and global markets experience with some of New Zealand's leading global exporters, including Delegat Group Limited, Carter Holt Harvey and AFFCO New Zealand. During his time at Delegat, Andrew worked in a range of senior sales management roles which spanned both domestic and international markets.

For the last five years Andrew was the International Sales Manager responsible for the sale of over 2 million cases of wine across 25+ markets and the management of 100 staff in addition to managing distributors around the world. Catherine Ma, the current Chief Executive, who has been with the group since inception and the CEO for the last 7 years, will retire from the role with effect from 5th April 2023.