“Together towards Success 2021” online discussion was held with the purpose to invest in the education of our clients.
Mongolian beverage industry leader and export-oriented manufacturer APU JSC has organized an online discussion event “Together towards Success 2021” successfully, in order to invest in the education of each of the businesses and customers all across Mongolia, and in the development of the industry as whole. During the discussion, entrepreneurs, businessmen, psychologists, and brand creators have exchanged their ideas and expertise, provided insights on how to overcome the tough challenges that pandemic brought us and convert these into a business opportunity.
Mongolian beverage industry leader and export-oriented manufacturer APU JSC has organized an online discussion event “Together towards Success 2021” successfully, in order to invest in the education of each of the businesses and customers all across Mongolia, and in the development of the industry as whole. During the discussion, entrepreneurs, businessmen, psychologists, and brand creators have exchanged their ideas and expertise, provided insights on how to overcome the tough challenges that pandemic brought us and convert these into a business opportunity.
Specifically, it is evident that the term “success” needs to be perceived differently in correlation with our values, to the extent of the current pandemic situation. Consequently, company executives highlighted the need to collectively create valuable cooperation.
During this moment, APU JSC CEO Ts.Erdenebileg emphasized that: “We should define success with values such as caring for each other, humanitarian culture, as well as respecting others during this difficult times. Protecting people, developing people and people-oriented management’s positive outcomes should be seen as a success. In this context, our staff has initiated an online event today to jointly create positive results and opportunities for our 10,000+ counteragents. During these times, we have followed up on our customer and staff friendly policy, and started selling our immunity supporting product, “Sain” brand’s “D” vitamin enriched milk at its net cost to the consumers, excluding all of the company’s profit indexes.
I encourage, all of clients, customers and co-workers to be more responsible, to protect our loved ones and together overcome and combat Covid-19 pandemic.”
Online forum was organized during the strict quarantine restrictions, according to the infection control regime requirements. You can watch it on APU JSC’s official Facebook page /APU Company | Facebook/ or nationally broadcasting television channels.
APU JSC CEO Erdenebileg Ts. participated in the “Climate 30+” forum hosted by the Trade and Development Bank of Mongolia. During the forum he stated that the “APU JSC is aiming to accelerate its effort towards sustainable development and is striving to apply it in our daily operations. Along with pandemic there are many issues before us waiting for its solutions, including the climate change, environmental pollution, responsible consumption, as well as inequality. Let’s pursue sustainable development together with simple, small and non-stop steps…”
Heineken is the world leading International premium beer with a long and proud history and heritage. It is discovered in 1873 by young entrepreneur Gerard Heineken. Today Heineken’s are served each day across 192 countries. Ingredients are malted barley, purified water, hops and A-Yeast. Heineken invests a solid 28 days in brewing to ensure its balanced taste, refreshing clarity and a beautiful golden color.
A Mongolian legend – Mongolia’s best-selling super premium vodka dedicated to be the classic expression of traditional ceremony and national genuine quality. Six step distilled alpha-grade spirit. Filtered over 5 days through charcoal, quartz, diamonds and silver. Elegant medium-bodied mouth feel with creamy aniseed and hint of citrus and bread notes.
Wild Turkey Creative Director McConaughey and Master Distiller Eddie Russell Unveil Small-Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Refined with Texas Mesquite
LAWRENCEBURG, KY (APRIL 10, 2018) –Today, Matthew McConaughey and the legendary Wild Turkey® Distillery are proud to announce the introduction of Wild Turkey Longbranch™, a collaboration between the iconic whiskey brand’s creative director and Master Distiller Eddie Russell. Inspired by McConaughey’s Kentucky and Texas roots, this rare small-batch Kentucky bourbon is refined with Texas Mesquite and oak charcoals – a unique method that deepens the flavor and complexity of the whiskey. This launch marks the first time Wild Turkey has unveiled a product that bears a signature of someone other than the Master Distillers Jimmy and Eddie Russell. A video of the creation of Wild Turkey Longbranch with McConaughey can be found here
Wild Turkey Longbranch is the latest collaboration to come from the multi-year partnership with the Academy Award® winning actor. McConaughey, who has served as the brand’s creative director since 2016, has worked behind the camera and in front of it in television commercials to reintroduce the world to Wild Turkey, and this new bourbon is a natural evolution of the partnership. The name is inspired by the friends that form the longest branches of our family trees.
The connections that McConaughey and the Russells have to both the great states of Kentucky and Texas were a major inspiration for this collaboration. McConaughey’s parents met at the University of Kentucky, a mere 15 miles from the Wild Turkey Distillery, while Eddie Russell’s youngest son, Bruce, now lives in McConaughey’s hometown of Austin, Texas.
“Longbranch, in its simplest form, is an extended hand, inviting a friend into your family,” McConaughey says. “So the branch that was extended to me from the Russells was a long one, one that reached from Kentucky to Texas and back again. I offered the Mesquite from my great state to add to their legendary Kentucky whiskey and together we made Longbranch.”
To create Longbranch’s signature flavor, McConaughey and Russell spent countless hours sharing notes, then, after two years of testing, perfected a proprietary process that combines two separate charcoal filtration methods to give Longbranch a smooth and full finish. The first of the filtration process uses charcoal made from American White Oak and the second uses charcoal made from Texas Mesquite wood, giving the bourbon notes of smoky sweetness.
Made with eight-year-old Wild Turkey Bourbon, Wild Turkey Longbranch is an exceptional bourbon with a bright gold color and aroma that is a balanced blend of vanilla and spices. Flavors of caramel, pear, and hints of citrus round out the palate. The subtle, smoky finish is buttery smooth, with notes of gentle pepper and toasted oak. “When we were creating Wild Turkey Longbranch, we talked at length about how to make a product that represents elements of both Texas and Kentucky,” said Wild Turkey Master Distiller Eddie Russell. “Our goal was to make a straight bourbon whiskey with a soft sweetness that was still unmistakably Wild Turkey. The result was a bourbon that we both truly enjoy drinking neat, and look forward to sharing with others.”
“Matthew McConaughey has been ingrained in the Wild Turkey brand as creative director for several years now,” said Bob Kunze-Concewitz, CEO at Campari Group, owner of Wild Turkey. “As a lover of bourbon, and an integral part of the team, it was a natural next step for Matthew to partner with Eddie to create a new product for Wild Turkey. We are proud of the work they’ve done and have great expectations for this amazing new whiskey.”
Wild Turkey Longbranch will be available on shelves across the US in May for a suggested retail price of $39.99 and will roll-out to additional markets around the world later this year.
APU JSC has launched the “Fast Track” program to develop and educate new graduate students at the workplace per a systematic plan. Throughout the year, program participants, who are poised to create high value within the organization, will learn and increase their abilities with the help of a Mentor, Coach, Buddy, and Supervisor. Wishing the best of luck to the young generation to create a successful future together.
Chinggis Original was first introduced 13 years ago making it the first premium vodka brand in Mongolia to create benchmark in the vodka industry. Spirit Bal Buram, capitalizing on its over 45 years of experience, prides itself on the creation of Chinggis brand, which has been awarded many esteemed regional and global awards to make it the leading export vodka from Mongolia.
WASHINGTON — At 80, Jimmy Russell finds his knees are not quite what they used to be. So he enjoys a comfortable chair where his admirers — millennial mixologists, their arms covered in tattoos; moneyed moms who have jettisoned their cosmopolitans for manhattans; and random professionals toting rare bottles of Wild Turkey — may approach to greet him.
Mr. Russell, the master distiller at Wild Turkey, ensconced himself this month at the Jack Rose Dining Saloon, a popular bourbon bar here, and held impromptu court, smiling with the sweetness of an old-fashioned at everyone who came to pay respect. “There is only one of you in the world,” said Lindsy Lee, 35, a lawyer and bourbon lover who came to meet him.
For decades, Mr. Russell toiled among the barrels and yeast in the quiet of the horse country of Kentucky all but unnoticed, as his father and his grandfather did. But the resurgence in whiskey has turned Mr. Russell, one of the last remaining original master distillers broadly responsible for the development and growth of the modern-era bourbon business, into an octogenarian cult figure.
Bartenders from around the country swarm him at every bar, bourbon festival and marketing event he visits, lapping up tales about old bottles of bourbon and the pre-Prohibition history of storied Kentucky distilleries, which Mr. Russell knows intimately. Buffs like Ms. Lee revere Mr. Russell and the other master distillers, as well as founders of a new crop of distilleries, who are known as bourbon barons, much the same way diners have apotheosized the nation’s best-known chefs, with an almost familial affection.
“Meeting Jimmy is one of the thrills of my life,” said Michael Stanley, who drove more than two hours from Salisbury, Md., where he tends bar, after seeing on Facebook that Mr. Russell and other master distillers and bourbon executives would gather after being honored by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, at a reception downtown. “All the legends are here.”
The excitement stemmed in large part from the resurgence of whiskey. While vodka has long outpaced bourbon in sales, vodka sales rose a mere 1.1 percent from 2012 to 2013, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, while sales of bourbon and Tennessee whiskey rose 12.8 percent over the same period. The increase is a result of the efforts of the master distillers.
“It’s just so wonderful to see all these young people enjoying bourbon,” Mr. Russell said as revelers in sexy tank tops (women) and artisanal facial hair (men) sipped premium bourbons and sat attentively to hear him reveal the granular history of several rare bottles of bourbon, down to the distiller who made them decades ago. “Especially the ladies,” he added, noting that women have been a big force in the resurrection of brown liquor.
Mr. Russell’s two greatest contemporaries — Booker Noe of the Jim Beam family and Elmer T. Lee of the Buffalo Trace distillery, who are credited with inventing small-batch and single-barrel bourbons — are gone now, and Parker Beam of Heaven Hill has retired, leaving Mr. Russell the oldest master distiller still working.SIGN UP FOR THE COOKING NEWSLETTER: Daily inspiration, delicious recipes, and other updates from Sam Sifton and The New York Times, right to your inbox.Sign Up
The new masters, including the sons of Mr. Noe and Mr. Beam, along with Chris Morris of Woodford Reserve and Jim Rutledge of Four Roses, have picked up the tradition, and their own fan base. Craig Beam and Denny Potter of Heaven Hill have come in Mr. Beam’s stead, and Greg Davis of Maker’s Mark carries the torch for those bottles sealed in red wax. Tom Bulleit, the founder of Bulleit Bourbon, falls into the category of the modern bourbon baron. Though he is not a master distiller, his name is on the bottle, and bourbon fans gravitate to him. All of these men travel the world touting American whiskey and many times find themselves together, like a band of brothers.
Bourbon distilling has long been a family tradition, said Michael R. Veach, a bourbon historian and author of “Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage.” “It really wasn’t until after Prohibition that you saw an effort to train other people in distilling,” he said. For much of the mid- to late-20th century, it was a sleepy business, though still an important Kentucky craft.
Mr. Russell and his contemporaries continued to teach their children the art of minding the grain mix and yeast mash, the difference among types of barrels used for aging and how a bourbon ought to smell. “Dad taught people how to properly smell bourbon,” Mr. Noe said, which includes inhaling it with the mouth as well as the nose.
Master distillers at a gathering earlier this month in Washington.Credit…Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times
Watching as Americans swilled vodka and beer during the 1980s, bourbon distillers realized that by returning to some pre-Prohibition bottling traditions and embracing the small-batch production and marketing efforts that had helped other beverages thrive, they could break bourbon out if its old-man image.
“My father saw single-malt scotches were doing really well,” said Fred Noe, the master distiller at Jim Beam and the son of Booker Noe. “And in his mind, if high-end bourbons with their special taste profiles were presented to the public in the correct way, he thought people would enjoy them.”
His father went into the attic of Jim Beam’s home in Bardstown, Ky., and found the pre-Prohibition ledgers that included the bills for customers who purchased their bourbon straight from the barrels. “So he developed Bookers straight from the barrel, uncut, unfiltered,” he said, adding, “That’s how it was done in 1795.”
As the small-batch movement took off, so did the role of the distillers, who became brand managers in their own right, promoting bourbon to liquor stores and bars around the country and eventually, overseas, doing “education seminars” and signing bottles the way authors sign books.
“People love to say, ‘I talked to Jim Beam’s great-grandson, and he told me how this bourbon was made,’ ” Mr. Noe said. “People who come into bars are looking for more than a drink these days; they want the stories. It’s entertainment.”Correction: Feb. 20, 2015
An earlier version of this article misstated the name of an alcohol trade association. It is the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, not the Distiller Spirits Council. Because of an editing error, the article also misstated the name of the bar where distillers gathered. It is the Jack Rose Dining Saloon, not the Jack Rose Dining Salon.
The first beer brand created in 2007 by an expert German brew master at MCS Tiger brewery, Sengur is a national Mongolian brand. Sengur has been awarded silver medal in 2009 and 2010 from AIBA, an international beer awards ceremony annually held in Australia. In addition, Sengur is the GOLD MEDAL winner at “WORLD BEER AWARDS 2014”, where the world’s best beers are recognized and GOLD MEDAL from “MONDE SELECTION QUALITY AWARDS 2021” in 2021.
Most of us know that the main ingredients of the lager beers include barley and hop. The white beer, on the other hand, contains wheat, a distinctive yet relatively expensive ingredient. Wheat beers are originated from Belgium and Germany, where such beers are called “Weiss beer” or white beer. Therefore, we decided to name our new “Sengur” brand extension wheat beer WHITE/TSAGAAN. The White Beer bears a cloudy color as if not filtered, and has a thicker taste than lager, with slight pinch of orange peel zest.
Chinggis Original was first introduced 13 years ago making it the first premium vodka brand in Mongolia to create benchmark in the vodka industry. Spirit Bal Buram, capitalizing on its over 45 years of experience, prides itself on the creation of Chinggis brand, which has been awarded many esteemed regional and global awards to make it the leading export vodka from Mongolia.
Taiga 55 herbal vodka is made from plants such as Rhodiola rosea, licorice root, star anise and cinnamon or cinnamon peel. The combination of APU JSC`s 95 year know how, medicinal plants and 21 day rest in barrels is what gives Taiga 55 its smoothness and aroma.
EDEN is the premium vodka that is produced with pure water, high-quality alpha grade spirit and fruit extract. Feel the creativity and tune your feelings with “EDEN” brand. A carefully traced ornament, local color accents, the author’s calligraphy, the combination of opaque and clear glass, all this creates a holistic and crafted brand image of the new EDEN vodka of the premium category.
The excellent vodka perfectly combined tradition and innovation through utterly crafted design inlaid with a stamped coin, adorned with gold and the highest alcohol is mixed with pure water, filtered through 9 gem filters.
The Bolor brand is a historical witness to the joy and pride of Mongolians. It was first launched in 1981 to commemorate the historic event of first Mongolian in space. The brand is growing together with consumers for 40 consecutive years. Major innovations have been made to meet the needs of consumers, and in 2020, recipes, flavors, and packaging have been radically reformed to meet the needs of young people with modern cultures.
Exemplifying part of a historical hint, this vodka is a perfect match to show a respect. The highest alcohol is mixed with pure water and filtered through 3 silver filtrations.
“Taiga” brand, launched in 2016, represents 4 seasons of Mongolia. The recipe has been developed with locally grown natural herbs, fruits and nuts extract. “Taiga” visualizes and provides various taste and subtle aroma according to every season that recollects ever so famous dear nature of Mongolia.
The Kharaa brand was first launched in 1993 and has been renovated several times to satisfy evolving needs of our customers. Today Kharaa brand is produced in two types: Pure and Soft. Soft Kharaa goes through “Golden Filtration”, for its customers who prefer a softer taste, making it an exceptionally good product.
The Board of Directors of APU JSC (the “Company” or “APU”) resolved on 15 February 2021 to distribute a dividend of MNT 57.5 per share in respect of the second half of 2020. The record date for the dividend is set as the record date of the 2021 annual general meeting of shareholders and the dividend will be paid through the Central Securities Depository within 31 December 2021.
Last year, the global pandemic COVID-19 destabilized the country’s social situation and posed significant economic challenges to the government, the private sector, and citizens at all levels. During the period, the Company developed and implemented a comprehensive crisis management plan which focused on retaining jobs, maintaining employee salaries, and ensuring production continuity while halting large investments and freezing tolerable operating costs.
Although the nationwide lockdowns and operational restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the sales of some products, the company put a lot of effort into community support and CSR donations and organized a variety of activities within the “Improve Accountability and Win Together” initiative that aimed to strengthen public-private partnerships.
“As the largest public company in Mongolia, it is important that APU becomes a benchmark for other listed companies in terms of reporting transparency and shareholder right protection. Earning season announcements of large national champions such as APU tend to be widely anticipated by the stakeholders. As an independent director, I support APU’s practice of declaring and paying dividends twice a year because it enhances, especially, minority shareholders’ return on investment and the Company’s accountability and transparency.” independent director Unenbat J. remarked.
As a result of this dividend decision, the Company is paying an annual total dividend of MNT 95 per share for 2020, which equals approximately 120% of earnings per share in that year, thus will partially be financed from retained earnings of the previous years. Regarding the Board decision, APU’s CEO Erdenebileg Ts. noted: “From 2010 to 2018, the Company went through a period of rapid expansion and large capital investments of over USD 150 million financed by long-term foreign debt. As a result, APU was restricted in terms of dividend payout during this time. Having successfully implemented those CAPEX projects and fully repaid the loans, it is fair for the Company during this pandemic to pay its 6600+ shareholders well-deserved dividends from its retained earnings.”
Since its creation in 1880, Grand Marnier liqueur has been the iconic spirit of vibrant French lifestyle around the world. It’s made from the unique combination of the finest French cognacs and essence of exotic oranges.The Grand Marnier bottle, whose roundness evokes the silhouette of the copper Cognac still, has not changed for over a century making it timeless.
Handcrafted with 100% Weber Agave, Espolòn is a premium tequila that celebrates the storied culture of true Mexico through classic 19th century artistry and the iconic rooster, a symbol of national pride. The labels, unique illustrations inspired by Mexican artistry, infuse the characters of Guadalupe, Rosarita and Ramon the Rooster into journeys capturing real moments in Mexican history.
Nestled in the heart of Jamaica, in the beautiful, lush Nassau Valley lies the Appleton Estate. For over 265 years, we have been crafting authentic, premium rums using time honored traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation.
Nestled in the heart of Jamaica, in the beautiful, lush Nassau Valley lies the Appleton Estate. For over 265 years, we have been crafting authentic, premium rums using time honored traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation.
Aperol originated in 1919 in Padova, it was a product of the Barbieri Brothers who launched the revolutionary idea of an aperitif with an alcohol content of only 11 percent. From then until today the popularity of Aperol has grown continuously, thanks to its fresh and versatile taste and its capacity to be mixed with so many other drinks. Aperol entered Campari Group’s portfolio in 2003 reaching new records of popularity and diffusion.
