Ara Grigoryan to become Yerevan Brandy Company CEO on July 1
03.04.2015,
20:27
Ara Grigoryan, vice-president of Pernod Ricard Eastern Europe and chairman of the Yerevan Brandy Company's board, will become also the company's CEO on July 1, and Ignat Arakelyan, deputy executive director, will take up the post of the Chief Operating Officer, the company's press office reported on Friday.
YEREVAN, April 3. /ARKA/. Ara Grigoryan, vice-president of Pernod Ricard Eastern Europe and chairman of the Yerevan Brandy Company's board, will become also the company's CEO on July 1, and Ignat Arakelyan, deputy executive director, will take up the post of the Chief Operating Officer, the company's press office reported on Friday.
According to the press release, these changes are prompted by Executive Director Artak Barseghyan's decision to quit the company for a job outside of the Pernod Ricard Group.
Ara Grigoryan was born in 1963. He has graduated from the Yerevan Agriculture Institute.
He started working at Yerevan Brandy Company in 1989 holding different positions in marketing and sales division.
Grigoryan has run the Pernod Ricard offices in Ukraine and Belarus over a period between 2001 and 2009 and has worked at the Yerevan Brandy Company as executive director between 2009 and 2013.
Ignat Arakelyan was born in 1972. He has graduated from Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction.
Arakelyan began his career at the Yerevan Brandy Company in 1998 as an accountant, and then as chief accountant.
In 2006, he was appointed as finance and administration director. Since 2009, he has been working here as deputy executive director.
Yerevan Brandy Company is the exclusive producer of ARARAT Brandies is the direct successor of Armenian brandy-making traditions, established in 1887.
Yerevan Brandy Company is the biggest taxpayer of the field and the biggest grape buyer.
In 1999 Yerevan Brandy Company joined the Pernod Ricard Group, the world co-leader of the Wine & Spirits industry, which unites such brands as Chivas, Absolut, Martell, Jameson and others. ----0----
