2024Accra Brewery Plc Certified as A Top Employer for 2024
2024Club Beer Receives Gold Quality Award from Monde Selection: A Testament to Excellence
December, 2021Club Beer Wins Monde Selection Award
2019Ghana Beverage Awards-Club Beer Product of the Year & Beer of the Year
2018Excellence in Procurement & Supply Chain of the Year Award - Beverage Manufacturing Sector
2017AGI Beverage Manufacturing Company of the Year: Alcoholic
2016/2017IFEJ Special Award
2013AGI Award for Best Practices in Sustainable Manufacturing
2013Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Award for Most Celebrated Brand-CLUB Beer
2012AGI Best Employer Award
2009CIMG Award, Manufacturing Company of the Year
2006Annual Advertising Association of Ghana (AAG) Gong Gong Awards, Best TV Commercial Alcohol & Non-Alcohol Beverage – Castle Milk Stout
2006Annual AAG Gong Gong Awards, Best Radio Commercial Alcoholic & Non-Alcoholic – Castle Milk Stout
2001CIMG Award, Product of the Year – Castle Milk Stout
1999CIMG Award, TV Advert of the Year – CLUB Beer Series
1995CIMG Award, Print Advert of the Year – CLUB Dark
1996CIMG Award, Product of the Year – CLUB Shandy
1994CIMG Award, Product of the Year – CLUB Dark
1993CIMG Award, Radio Advert of the Year – CLUB Beer
1990CIMG Award, Manufacturing Company of the Year – ABL
1989CIMG Award, Product of the Year – CLUB Beer
Dederik Johannes Kruger Country Director, Accra Brewery PLC, GhanaDederik holds two degrees (B.Com. Sport Science and Logistics) from the University of Johannesburg. (South Africa).
He started his professional career at The South African Breweries in 2001 and is now a proud employee of AB-InBev. During his time working in the beer industry, he progressed from BDR level to Country Director. Additionally, during this period, he achieved several outstanding results.
Two important principles that Dederik lives by are accountability and responsibility, which he believes pave the way for transparency, creativity, and true engagement, culminating in diverse teams that take ownership of every outcome.
Dederik is looking forward to his tenure in Ghana, and particularly at Accra Brewery PLC, making a difference in people’s lives and delivering extraordinary results to create a future with more cheers.
Dederik’s favourite ABL brand is Club Lager Beer because, apart from being crisp and refreshing, it is the best beer brewed in Ghana.
Siftan Yerimond Plant Manager and Head of Supply
Eng. Siftan Yerimond is our Plant Manager and Head of Supply
He holds a BSC degree in Mechanical Engineering., and a professional mechanical engineer with 17+ years’ experience in the engineering field.
He has been registered by the Professional Engineers Board of Tanzania with a strong background in industrial maintenance and food and beverage in the FMCG industry.
Prior to joining ABL, Eng. Siftan worked for ABInBev in Tanzania and Uganda Breweries for more than eleven years. He is a results-oriented, agile, resilient, curious, and dedicated engineer with excellent maintenance execution experience, process management, production management, and manufacturing industries at large.
Siftan’s favourite ABL brand is Club Lager beer.
Maxwell Emmanuel Tawiah Country Procurement Lead
Maxwell is our Country Procurement Lead. In this role, he also supports our BU West strategic sustainability projects.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Accounting and Taxation from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration and a Bachelor of Commerce (Bcom) from the University of Cape Coast. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICA, Ghana) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana (CIT, Ghana)
Maxwell joined ABL in 2013 as the Accounts Payable Manager and was promoted to Country Tax Manager in 2017. He assumed his current role in November 2019. Prior to joining ABL he worked as a Principal Internal Auditor at Ghana Highways Authority.
1Maxwell’s favorite ABL brand is Club because it is REFERESHING
Kefilwe Tabona Country Finance Lead
Kefilwe Tabona is our Country Finance Lead
Kefilwe is a qualified member of the Association of Accounting Technicians (MAAT) and is currently pursuing the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) qualification. As a passionate strategist and business executive, Kefilwe has also widened her knowledge through various courses in People Management, Financial Management and Reporting, Compliance, Digital Transformation and Operational Effectiveness amongst others. Her career spans more than 24 years of varied experience in financial management, business leadership, and corporate strategy.
Earlier in her career, Kefilwe held varying positions such as Cost Accountant, Management Accountant, Business Partner (Logistics and Marketing), and recently Commercial Performance Planning Manager responsible for Botswana and Namibia. She is currently based in Gaborone, heading Finance functions for Botswana and Ghana.
Kefilwe’s favourite ABL brand is Eagle Extra because it refreshes her after a long day.
Vanessa Kavi Country Marketing Lead
Vanessa Kavi is our Country Marketing Lead.
She holds a degree in Mathematics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.
Prior to joining ABL, Vanessa was the Head of Marketing for Godrej Consumer Products (Weave Ghana Limited). She also worked at PZ Cussons and Unilever Ghana and South Africa, where she handled different brand portfolios across different categories, spanning personal care, home care, and food and beverages. She has a decade of diverse Marketing and Brand Management experience in the FMCG industry.
Priscilla Vivien Frimpong Country People Lead
Priscilla is a senior certified HR professional with over a decade of work experience spanning across customer service and HR.
Holds a master’s degree in business Administration and a Bachelor’s degree in Management and Computer Studies.
Priscilla started her HR career with Unilever Ghana, then Tigo Ghana, where she developed her skills to interface with customers as a customer service representative, Dangote Cement Ghana as a senior HRO, and Transmed Ghana as HR Manager.
Priscilla’s favourite ABL brand is Club Shandy because it quenches her thirst any day!
Samuel Umeh Country Logistics Lead
He holds a degree in Industrial Production Engineering from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, in Anambra State, Nigeria.
Samuel joined ABL in October 2022; before that, he was the Business Unit Warehouse Manager for West Africa under International Breweries PLC Nigeria. Samuel has spent 10 years in Logistics and Supply Chain Management covering all aspects of the function.
Samuel believes there is vast opportunity in the Ghana market and is dedicated to capturing it.
Samuel enjoys ice-cold Club Lager beer; he often says, “This is the best liquid in West Africa”.
Solomon Yaw Ayiah Head, Legal and Corporate Affairs
Solomon Yaw Ayiah is our Country Legal & Corporate Affairs Lead.
He holds LLB from GIMPA, Masters in Development Communications from GIJ, B.A in Communications Studies from UG and Diploma in Journalism from GIJ
He joined us from GHACEM Limited were he worked as the Strategy and Corporate Affairs Head. He has also worked as the Marketing Manager, World Vision International, Communications Manager for ABSA (formerly Barclays Bank Ghana Limited), and Assistant Editor of Ghana Television.
