MESSAGE DU PRÉSIDENT-DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL

Message from Alexandre Ricard

Over the past several years, the Group has been in a dynamic of far-reaching transformation to increase our agility and operational efficiency, with the sole objective of building the Pernod Ricard of the future, today. ‘Building for the long term’ is the course we set 45 years ago, when Paul Ricard and Jean Hémard, followed by Patrick Ricard, established the founding principle of creating long-term value for all our stakeholders. This requires our being the first to seize and capitalise on every growth opportunity, wherever it presents itself.  At a time when many companies have been compelled to hastily adapt their organisation to face the new context imposed by the Covid-19 crisis, we were already two years into our major business transformation strategy, ‘Transform & Accelerate’, with its 21 concrete actions to accelerate growth – a process we have been undertaking relentlessly as illustrated by the creation this year of Pernod Ricard France.