Taking The Team To The Top

More than ever before, the old sporting maxim ‘the game is bigger than the individual’ is becoming a mantra for modern business.

- Anne Fulwood

As contemporary leaders highlight the need for better collaboration and diversity to bring out the best in their people, it has increasingly become a matter of who’s on the team and how the collective can work together on achieving a common goal.

This has been a way of life for Andrew Loader.

As the newly minted General Manager of Mars Wrigley Confectionery (MWC) in Australia, the man born and raised in country Victoria is full of energy about what his team can deliver in a new era for the confectionery business, which combines the Mars Chocolate and Wrigley businesses into one. Launched on 1 January 2018, MWC Australia is part of Mars, Incorporated – a consumer goods powerhouse that generates almost US$35 billion in sales from its global business interests in food, confectionery and pet food.

That the business is privately owned by the Mars family, holds special significance for Andrew, who lives in Melbourne with his wife, Kim, and three children.

Family to him means ‘team’, in work and in life. As one of six children, growing up on a farm, he quickly learned that both family and team needs will, by necessity, trump individual needs virtually every time.