Integrated Annual Report FY23

Our organisation

Our organisation

Pernod Ricard is best positioned to harness the continued global consumer demand for quality spirit and wine brands.

We have always demonstrated our ability to thrive when challenged. To reach our ambition to grow more premium brands at scale, we have simplified our organisation to foster mutualisation, efficiently allocate resources and share expertise while accelerating decision-making.

20,600+employees worldwide

4 Must-win markets: United States, China, India and Global Travel Retail

96 Production sites

75 Countries with our own sales force

160+Countries in which are brands are distributed

We’ve delayered and simplified our organisation, replacing 22 management entities with 10(1) :

  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Northern Europe
  • Southern Europe
  • Central & Eastern Europe
  • Africa & Middle East
  • China
  • India
  • Asia Pacific
  • Global Travel Retail

Each Management Entity encompasses different Market Companies, including one lead Market Company. The Market Companies’ role is to activate the Group’s international brand strategies at the local level and manage the local and regional brands in their portfolio.

We have six global Brand Companies:

  • Chivas Brothers
  • Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët
  • The Absolut Group (including gins and tequilas)
  • Irish Distillers
  • Pernod Ricard Winemakers
  • Havana Club International

Brand Companies are responsible for developing the overall global brand strategy for their respective brands, as well as brand assets that can be deployed at local level by the Market Companies. Brand Companies are also responsible for production and management of their industrial facilities.

(1) as of 1 September, 2023.