Rob Heyns
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MD | Avante Brandy | Break Free Beverages Pty Ltd at Avante Brandy
Location: City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 14 work roles 3 schools
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MD | Avante Brandy | Break Free Beverages Pty Ltd
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City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Rob Heyns is listed as MD | Avante Brandy | Break Free Beverages Pty Ltd at Avante Brandy, based in City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Rob Heyns.

Rob Heyns previously worked as Managing Director at Avante Brandy and Managing Director at Break Free Beverages. Rob Heyns holds Pgdem, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, A from University Of Cape Town.

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I've had 4 startups: 3 successful exits and 1 horrible explosion. In a nutshell, I’m an experienced entrepreneurial generalist with a specialisation in business development, with some hard knocks under my belt that help guide forward thinking. I love innovation and am very much at home in the beverages space.My latest adventure; Break Free Beverages is focused on asset development in Route To Market and Brand Bevelopment; and has launched with Avante Brandy.

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Avante Brandy
Avante Brandy
MD | Avante Brandy | Break Free Beverages Pty Ltd
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14 roles · 20 years

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Managing Director

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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Aug 2023 - Present

Managing Director

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Break Free Beverages

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Break Free Beverages, in partnership with Liquidity, develops new business in the Beverage industry, with a focus on Route-To-Market and Brand Development for Export, DTC (DirectTo Consumer) and Monthly Clubs. It is also the operational company for Avante Brandy.

Jul 2023 - Present

Biz Dev At Space Between Drinks

The Space Between Drinks

South Africa

Oct 2020 - Feb 2024

Biz Dev And E-Commerce

The Space Between Drinks

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Creating Bespoke Solutions in the areas of New Product Development and Route-To-Market with a Consumer-Centric focus and strong Digital application.Successfully launched Real English - An e-commerce, DTC and subscriptions business for RED Distillery in the UK.Created custom drinks gifting ranges for Yuppiechef; Norman Goodfellows and German.

Aug 2020 - May 2022

Founder & Marketing Director

League Of Beers

Cape Town Area, South Africa

www.leagueofbeers.com is an online craft beer store and experience that works on growing the craft and artisanal beer industry.We launched at the genesis of the craft beer revolution in SA. Our original hypothesis: Get great beer to people who love it and people who don't yet know that they will love the beers.Many pivots and adaptations further, we.

Jan 2012 - Feb 2024

New Business, Innovation And Beverage Clubs

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

I work within Southern Skies across wine.co.za, cellardirect.co.za, wineshow.co.za, cybercellar.co.za, oorskotwyn.co.za, thebeverageclub.co.za, and vintelligence.co.za to help develop more and more customer-centric offerings.

Mar 2023 - Nov 2023

Venture Solutions Lead

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

I work alongside the fast-moving, dynamic Sales team at The Delta to find the best-suited solutions and opportunities for our venture clients. I collaborate closely with founders and their teams to identify which of our end-to-end services would best catalyse their venture’s growth.

Jun 2022 - Mar 2023

Non-Executive Director

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Tiny Keg is Africa's first mobile canning solution and ecosystem.Tiny Keg is a mobile canning provider for small and medium-sized market breweries of craft beer, wine and other beverages based in Cape Town. We offer high quality, bespoke and affordable packaging services.Websitehttps://tinykeg.com/Learning's with Tiny Keg:Porter's 5 Forces is real and very.

Nov 2017 - Jun 2022

Founder, Md, & Biz Bev

Steel Cut Spirits: Sugarbird Fynbos Gin

Cape Town Area, South Africa

What a journey! Some of the best and worst days of my career!We launched in 2017 through crowdfunding (see separate section) to large success by breaking the South African product, pre-sale crowdfunding record, and with an unknown brand!This lead to a Capital raising which included some conflicts between initial and later investors but ended with a.

Sep 2017 - Jun 2020

Buyer + League Of Beers Manager

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Yuppiechef bought League of Beers from us in 2013, 12 months after launching.The deal was: Scale League of Beers and get to profitability (which we did) AND build up an alcohol category on Yuppiechef (which we did, our biggest successes were craft beer, craft gin and alcohol free).We were a forerunner in Alcohol Free and Craft Gin in online, launching.

Sep 2013 - Jun 2019

Record-Breaking Crowdfunding Campaign

South Africa

Broke the South African Crowdfunding Record: R1.06M in pre-sales.We launched a brand new gin brand through a crowdfunding campaign with the objectives of: - Raise capital in product pre-sales - Test and validate demand for a new fynbos gin brand - Build an initial following of supporters We ran multiple marketing, sales and PR initiatives over a 7 week.

Jun 2017 - Dec 2017

National Sales Manager

Managed the Brand and grew it extensively in the Western, Eastern and Southern Cape as well as in Natal.

Feb 2009 - Jan 2011

Store Manager & Trainee Planner

2006 - 2009 ~3 yrs
3 education records

Rob Heyns education

Pgdem, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, A

Activities and Societies: Genesis Start-up Project Full time study of the strategies of entrepreneurships coupled with practical running.

Honours Bcomm, Logistics, Marketing, Hr

Activities and Societies: Maties Rugby, Residence Leadership and Organisational Activities General business courses with majors in.

Matric, Maths, Science Etc., B

Rondebosch Boys' High School

Activities and Societies: Sport: Basketball Captain Rugby 2nd team Drumming Tai Chi Waterpolo

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What company does Rob Heyns work for?

Rob Heyns works for Avante Brandy.

What is Rob Heyns's role at Avante Brandy?

Rob Heyns is listed as MD | Avante Brandy | Break Free Beverages Pty Ltd at Avante Brandy.

Where is Rob Heyns based?

Rob Heyns is based in City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa while working with Avante Brandy.

What companies has Rob Heyns worked for?

Rob Heyns has worked for Avante Brandy, Break Free Beverages, The Space Between Drinks, League Of Beers, and Southern Skies Investment Holdings.

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Rob Heyns holds Pgdem, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, A from University Of Cape Town.

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