Amsterdam, 29 April 2008 – Following the completion of its acquisition of Scottish & Newcastle, Heineken N.V. today began the integration process by announcing that Jeremy Blood has been appointed as Managing Director of its UK business. Jeremy will be based in Edinburgh, where Heineken has decided to locate its UK operating headquarters, and will report to Didier Debrosse, Heineken’s Regional President of Western Europe.
Jeremy has been Managing Director of Scottish & Newcastle’s UK business since December 2007. He joined S&N in 1988 as a graduate trainee and has worked in a variety of marketing and strategy positions in both the beer and pub retail divisions, including the role of Managing Director for S&N Pub Enterprises, the fast-growing leased pub business with over 2,000 pubs across the UK. From 2002 to 2005, he was Director of Corporate Affairs for Scottish & Newcastle plc, responsible for government, investor and media relations.
Heineken has also reappointed the existing managing directors of the businesses acquired from S&N in Belgium, Finland and Portugal. They are:
Marc Roubaud, General Manager of Alken-Maes (Belgium)
Yrjö Narhinen, General Manager of Oy Hartwall Ab (Finland)
Alberto da Ponte, Managing Director of Centralcer/Central de Cervejas S.A. Portugal) | 
