Kgalagadi Breweries Limited (KBL) and Botswana Breweries (BBL) have appointed Tsaone Semausu to the executive position of General Manager: BBL, effective from 1st November 2012.
The announcement was made during the farewell party for Tom Mpedi, the outgoing General Manager for BBL, on the 31st October 2012 in Gaborone.
As General Manager for BBL, Semausu is charged with developing and implementing the strategic plans of the business to ensure economic viability, delivering to the company’s sustainable development strategy as well as developing BBL’s senior manager to provide for adequate succession planning by cultivating an environment that nurtures team performance and individual growth.
Commenting on the appointment, KBL and BBL Managing Director, Hloni Matsela, said, “I am delighted at Tsaone’s appointment and it is most pleasing that one of our own prot├®g├®es has been identified as worthy of this executive appointment; bearing testament to the high caliber of skills, knowledge and experience that we continue to develop and inculcate through the strategic management of our human resources.”
Being a well-honed manager who has a varied Fast Moving Consumer Goods [FMCG] experience under his belt, Semausu comes rightly qualified to carry BBL to the next level, to ensure the achievement of the strategic objectives of the business, help to create value for shareholders and to deliver on his already demonstrable strong leadership skills.
Semausu joined BBL in 2008 as Brewery Manager for the Lobatse operations where he has been instrumental in the growth of the brewery to ensure solid financial controls and profitability of the business unit despite a very challenging environment for the breweries. He quickly distinguished himself and his team by consistently leading on a number of key performance indicators, culminating in the winning of the Inaugural Complementary Beverages Marketing Sales & Distribution Award for SABMiller Africa earlier this year.
Ensuring a talent pipeline that is able to provide the required numbers and caliber of managers and specialists is a major strategic issue at KBL and BBL, said Matsela. Significant resources are focused on training development of leadership, management and technical skills ÔÇô in particular Batswana who can occupy key roles in future, he added.
