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Tony Spawton
Tony
Associate Professor Tony Spawton is the founder of the wine marketing discipline. He specialises in cross cultural purchase behaviour of wine and in the strategies needed to develop culture of the moderate consumption of wine its ensuing health benefits.

His main speciality is in wine branding strategies and other issues relating to the marketing channels for wine to include wine tourism.  
Tony teaches and lectures to a wide audience globally as International Director of the Wine Marketing Group at the Ehrenberg Bass Institute for Marketing Science.

Before embarking on a long and distinguished career in academia, Tony had a career as a Brand Development Manager ( personal products, household products) as a consultant and as a  senior marketing manager in the wine industry.