Next Frontier Brands

This week’s Team Spotlight features Dean Draper, UK & EU Managing Director. From UK’s first mobile phone business and the Silverstone circuit to Next Frontier Brands, Dean has incredible insight into emerging opportunities of the future.

Bill Wafford has joined the team here at Next Frontier Brands as our Chief Financial Officer. Previously in his career, Wafford was the Chief Financial Officer of JCPenney, and was the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Vitamin Shoppe. He also served as a Partner in the Advisory Practice of KPMG, LLP, and was a Vice President of Finance at Walgreens. At Next Frontier Brands, he will lead financial reporting, strategy and operations.

Today we’ve announced the acquisition of Snow Leopard Vodka. This acquisition has broadened our beverage portfolio to continue delivering superior customer experiences. Snow Leopard Vodka is a uniquely luxurious spelt grain vodka that is crafted in Poland, distilled six times using natural spring water and filtered twice through charcoal to ensure purity and quality. It is dedicated to snow leopard conservation through its ongoing support of the Snow Leopard Trust.

A new 14,500 sq ft production facility at Bottomley Distillers, our UK spirits producer is quickly coming together. When fully operational, it can distill 10,000 liters of alcohol per day. On its journey of becoming carbon neutral by 2025, all stills have a custom built programmable logic controller (PLC) control panels with self-learning algorithms, which ensures they do not use any excess energy or water during the distillation process.