The immediate past sales director of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Mr. Ayodele Lawal has passed, aged 58, The Industry Newspaper can authoritatively report.
Mr. Lawal died early this morning after a long battle with cancer. The sickness was fingered as the main reason why he stepped aside from his position mid-2024.
He was appointed to the role of sales director in NB Plc on May 1, 2023, and was also a member of the company’s management team. His appointment followed the retirement of Uche Unigwe.
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Lawal brought with him over 30 years of experience in brewing and sales functions. He has held several senior Sales roles in the Company and the parent company – HEINEKEN.
He started his career with the Company in 1991 as a brewer and thereafter made a cross-functional move to Sales as a Field Sales Manager, rising through the ranks to the position of Regional Business Manager in Central, West, Lagos, and Port Harcourt regions.
In 2017, he was seconded to HEINEKEN Vietnam and later in the same year, he was appointed National Sales Manager BRANA (Heineken OpCo in Haiti) before becoming in 2018, the Sales Director for Haiti. He returned to Nigeria in 2021 to take up the role of Zonal Business Manager, North, and thereafter, the Zonal Business Manager, West.
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