Brewery names Joyce as chairman

FORMER South Pacific Brewery managing director Stan Joyce has been appointed board chairman.
Joyce joined the company as marketing manager in 1995 and became managing director in 2007.
He retired in September 2019.
He joined the board as a director.
He succeeds the late Sir Joseph Tauvasa who passed away in January.
“I look forward to working with the Heineken directors and our local directors to provide the winning combination of international best practices in the brewing industry, combined with local knowledge of the market and environment in PNG,” Joyce said.
“As chairman, I will continue to uphold SP Brewery’s values of passion for quality, enjoyment of life and respect for people and the planet.
“It is indeed a disappointment that the Covid-19 has been used as a reason to place liquor bans on licit alcohol whilst the production of illicit product remains rampant.
“Furthermore, it concerns me that the incidence of alcohol-related violence continues unabated during the liquor bans, while the Government continues to lose more than K1 million per day because of lost excise collection.
“We trust that a degree of normalcy can be restored and maintained.”