Exporting, Branding, Sales, General Management, Grant Funding Applications, Online retail, Company restructuring, Orderly wind down of businesses in financial trouble, Startup ventures and Mentoring/Business coaching.

Specialising in taking Australia’s best wine brands to the world. Simon is one of Australia’s leading independent wine sales experts, supporting the development of Australian wine brands and marketing and selling wines in the USA, China, Japan, Korea, Canada and domestically in Australia.

His experience includes brand building in international markets (e.g. Mollydooker’s USA market entry), online wine sales (Grays Online), distressed product sales, new product development for both large and niche products. He has experience at all price points from bulk wine through to $1,000/bottle products.

He advises extensively in the management of wine and wine tourism business, was part of Wine Australia’s ‘Marketing Advisory Group’ and has trained hundreds of Australian wineries on exporting in Wine Australia’s ‘Growing Wine Exports’ program. He also lectures at the University of Adelaide on ‘Wine Retail and International Wine Marketing’.

Wine Export, General Management 

Yvette studied a Bachelor of Education at the University of South Australia and commenced her career managing a family day option centre catering to intellectually disabled adults. Yvette has also worked for one of Australia’s largest financial institutions, AMP in their Sydney office.

As well as managing the operations and administration of Fullglass, Yvette also manages her own client base. Yvette’s excels in systems implementation, event management, staff management and planning. Coupling with a pragmatic and structured business approach, Yvette gets the job done efficiently and achieves instant results.

Wine Export and Domestic Sales and Marketing

On completion of her Bachelor of Management (Marketing), Alicia commenced her career in various marketing roles within the Hardy Wine Company. Alicia also took on a role within the management team at Australian Major Events gaining valuable, hands on, event management experience. She was then employed as the Sales and Marketing Manager for Stringy Brae Wines in the Clare Valley.

Alicia’s fulfilled marketing roles within Kilikanoon Wines in the Clare Valley. Robert Parker Jnr. was quoted as saying “This is one of the most brilliantly run wineries in Australia”.

Alicia has also been responsible for the rejuvenation of the Transforma furniture branding, lifting the image to allow Transforma to compete in the super premium end of the furniture market.

Alicia’s skills aim to create an effective, branded, marketing environment through the combination of graphic design and marketing strategies, and developing innovative, alternative packaging to expand the popularity and accessibility of wine.