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Our dedicated International Export Sales team takes care of our customers worldwide, while collaborating closely with our colleagues in the US and Canada. The team delivers high-quality hops to brewers globally, through direct sales and our trusted network of distributors. They also manage our export logistics, shipping from our cold storage facilities in Newland and Charles Faram Europe, located in Wilków, Poland.
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Ben has worked in International Sales for the best part of the last 10 years and loves the challenge of meeting customer's needs across the world.
Previously heading up a team at a small family-run engineering company, Ben saw the opportunity to join the team at Farams whilst doing a recruitment project. He jumped at the idea of entering into the brewing industry, having previously enjoyed homebrewing and drinking all manner of different beer styles.
Ben enjoys being busy and has been juggling the running of the International department and studying for his General Certificate in Brewing, through the IBD, to improve his knowledge of the brewing process.
Outside of work, Ben enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, listening to music and podcasts, and enjoying a beer or two in his local pub.
Ben Hart
International Head of Sales
Andrew has over 30 years of experience in the brewing industry and manages the hop supply of our international supply chain partners.
Andrew has previously worked as a design engineer then during his time playing rugby, he met someone who had just started a brewery. Andrew persistently asked for a job and was offered one. He then began travelling to different countries with Faram's on selection visits. As business at Charles Faram continued to grow, Andrew was invited to join the team, and he has not looked back ever since.
The opportunity to travel and meet different brewers and try beers from around the world is his favourite part of his role and is a great way for him to connect with the global brewing community.
Andrew's hobbies include rugby, music, gardening and of course, having a beer at the pub. Cheers to that.
Andrew Whalley
Sales Manager – International Key Accounts
The first beer Bartek ever had was in a Czech hospoda, and the second one in a British pub. Since then, there was no turning back from the beer path. His love for beer brought him from Poland to Belgium, where Bartek studied brewing and worked as a head brewer.
For Bartek, besides hops, of course, the most important ingredient in beer is the people and their stories. Bartek enjoys visiting breweries by bike or train the most. His favourite beer depends on where he's drinking it — but most of them will have a hint of Styrian Golding or Fuggle.
Bartek Guzinski
European Sales Manager (Belgium-Netherlands-Poland)
Jason Jenkins
European Sales Manager (France-Switzerland)
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Ben has worked in International Sales for the best part of the last 10 years and loves the challenge of meeting customer's needs across the world.
Previously heading up a team at a small family-run engineering company, Ben saw the opportunity to join the team at Farams whilst doing a recruitment project. He jumped at the idea of entering into the brewing industry, having previously enjoyed homebrewing and drinking all manner of different beer styles.
Ben enjoys being busy and has been juggling the running of the International department and studying for his General Certificate in Brewing, through the IBD, to improve his knowledge of the brewing process.
Outside of work, Ben enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, listening to music and podcasts, and enjoying a beer or two in his local pub.
Ben Hart
International Head of Sales
Andrew has over 30 years of experience in the brewing industry and manages the hop supply of our international supply chain partners.
Andrew has previously worked as a design engineer then during his time playing rugby, he met someone who had just started a brewery. Andrew persistently asked for a job and was offered one. He then began travelling to different countries with Faram's on selection visits. As business at Charles Faram continued to grow, Andrew was invited to join the team, and he has not looked back ever since.
The opportunity to travel and meet different brewers and try beers from around the world is his favourite part of his role and is a great way for him to connect with the global brewing community.
Andrew's hobbies include rugby, music, gardening and of course, having a beer at the pub. Cheers to that.
Andrew Whalley
Sales Manager – International Key Accounts
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Meet the sales & Marketing team
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UK sales team member since 2017
If you ask Beth to describe her role, she says, “visiting breweries and trade events to talk to brewers and anyone who will listen to me whilst representing high-quality hops, malt, yeast and everything a brewery needs”. She does like a good chat.
She also loves the day-to-day variety of the role, communicating with people, seeing different breweries, travelling, working with an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and all-around lovely team, and receiving excellent feedback about Charles Faram & Co.
She’s no newcomer to the industry as she started working in the production planning and statistics department at Frederic Robinson Ltd in Stockport in 1995 and worked her way up to contracts manager brewing and packaging.
Beth’s hobbies are bird watching, photography, walking, and baking.
She won’t tell you about her most embarrassing moment, but I’m sure mid-chin wag it can be coaxed out. For now, she just says, “my ex-colleagues know, but what happens in Robinson’s stays in Robinson’s.”
Beth Eaton
Sales Manager
North of England & Scotland
Tel: +44 (0) 7498 908809
UK sales team member since 2019
Jon has spent 8 years at Gadds’ (Ramsgate Brewery) where he cut his teeth in the brewing industry and was eventually elevated to Head Brewer.
This experience and his Diploma in Brewing with passes for modules 1 & 2, make him a fantastic, knowledgeable addition to our pool of technical knowledge and expertise.
The story of how he got into the brewing industry is a familiar one. He was loafing around in Spain, looking for a job in East Kent when Eddie Gadd came to his rescue and gave him a part-time cask washing/racking role.
He says that he loves home brewing, travelling, music, photography and of course, pubs.
Jon says that his most embarrassing moment is; “Forgetting to put a key late hop addition into a Gadds’ seasonal beer. I was mortified but Menno from De Molen tried the beer and thought it was excellent, so that soothed things.”
Jon Stringer
Sales Manager
South East & East of England
Tel: +44 (0) 7572 251910
UK Sales Team member since March 2022
Rich has worked in the brewing industry for over 20 years. He has a passion for cask ale having worked for Adnams, Purity and Marston's.
Looking after customers and building long-term, sustainable relationships are his top priorities.
Rich is a family man and loves nothing more than spending quality time with his partner, two daughters and his deaf Staffordshire Bull Terrier. He also enjoys watching NFL and baseball, as well as cooking on his pellet smoker and collecting art.
In terms of embarrassing moments, Richard says that there isn’t enough room for us to list all of them here. Take it from him when he says that he’s basically a one-man episode of “You’ve Been Framed”. So, we will just stick a Go Pro on him at events then – Marketing Department.
Rich Davies
Sales Manager
Wales & Central England
Tel: +44 (0) 7506 752723
Team member since 2025
Ruth grew up on the beautiful Suffolk coast, a few miles from the Adnams Brewery in Southworld, but has recently moved to Abergavenny, South Wales.
She got her first job in the beer industry over 15 years ago, starting in telesales and moving into several different roles including trade marketing and running brewery and distillery tours.
Ruth is a qualified Beer Sommelier and Certified Cicerone, has recently completed a TQUK certificate in Environmental Sustainability and is certified as Carbon Literate by the Carbon Literacy Project. She also has several musical qualifications, including a very exciting Grade 2 for Piano Duets.
When Ruth is not exploring new breweries, distilleries and vineyards, she loves wild swimming, going on walks in the beautiful Welsh countryside, reading and working on her cocktail skills. Ruth also loves to travel and enjoys discovering new places, both in the UK and further afield.
Ruth Mitchell
Sales Manager
South West UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1905 967119
Team member since 2021
Hollie is from Worcester and has 5 years of experience, working in a sales admin role and credit control.
She takes pride in her customer service and likes taking on a challenge and solving problems for customers.
Hollie wanted to join the team at Faram's because she was looking to progress further in her career and wanted to join a company where she could become part of a close-knit team.
So far she is enjoying working with the customers and the fact she is always busy. She is also happy to be working with such a lovely team! (We do love a bit of flattery here at Faram's)
No embarrassing industry moments so far, but we hope events will start happening again soon so there's plenty of time yet!
In her spare time, Hollie loves going for long walks and being outdoors with friends and family.
Hollie Milner
UK Sales & Sales Support
Tel: +44 (0) 1905 967119
Team member since 2022
Molly is from Worcester and has previous experience working in Retail and Property Management.
She enjoys using her customer service skills to provide sales support and help breweries by taking orders and answering any queries that may come in.
Molly joined the team at Faram's as the role was recommended to her when she fancied a change of scene. She enjoys drinking beer so thought the role was a perfect fit!
Molly only started with us very recently, but so far has been enjoying learning more about all the hops we stock and the brewing industry as a whole by speaking to our customers.
Outside of work, Molly loves nothing more than watching Worcester Warriors games, musical theatre, going on dog walks and maybe a few trips to the pub.
As Molly hasn't been at Faram's long there hasn't been a chance for any embarrassing moments yet!
Molly Everitt-FrenCH
UK Sales & Sales Support
Tel: + 44 (0) 1905 967133
Currently on maternity leave
Team member since 2021
Dan is from Studley and has lots of experience working in the hospitality industry. He also has a degree in Modern history.
His main area of expertise is working in customer-facing roles where he gets to have lots of experience dealing with the general public.
He got into this role because he fancied a change of scene and thought that working with hops sounded fun (you’re not wrong there Dan!)
Dan hasn’t been in the role for very long, but so far he’s enjoying the challenges involved day to day and that he gets to speak to lots of different people and help them out with their problems.
His hobbies include reading, cooking and eating – sounds good to us!
Dan Jordan
UK Sales & Sales Support
Tel: +44 (0) 1905 967119
Team member since 2015 / UK Sales team member since 2017
Mark describes his role as, advice on all things brewing and hop growing, specialising in sales, contracts and service.
Originally from a high street background with Sony (all things geeky...and he loves a good turntable), he was one of the youngest store managers at 23. The store won a national competition which took him to the world cup in 2010…the amazing game was England and Algeria!
Mark then ran a pub for 2 years and won a new licensee of the year which included a trip to Carlsberg in Copenhagen. He then got a bit too old and couldn’t handle the hours, so he started with Charles Faram in the warehouse before moving across into sales.
With his background in customer service, he hopes to bring a further element to the team to compliment the excellent technical support and service that we have.
The best thing about his job is working in a varied and great industry.
Mark has a swimming badge level 3 to add to his accomplishments and lists his hobbies as football, music and movies. He also said that he still plays on a PS4, but the editor thought that we should leave that out.
His most embarrassing moment, considering that he works in the brewing industry is that he is, “an absolute lightweight.”
Mark Lovegrove
UK Sales & Sales Support Team Leader
Tel: +44 (0) 7506 752464
Team member since 2025
Born in Portugal, Mariana joined the Charles Faram team in August 2025.
She holds a BSc (Hons) in Marketing, Advertising and PR, and is currently pursuing an MSc in Marketing. Mariana brings hands-on experience in social media content creation and event planning.
She joined Charles Faram to broaden her industry experience and continue developing her skills as a young marketing professional.
Outside of work, Mariana enjoys reading, travelling, and discovering new places around the world.
Mariana Fouto
Marketing Executive
Tel: +44 (0) 1905 967119
Team member since 2024
Patrick joined the team in January, hailing from Gloucester. With a background in car sales and a degree in Marketing Management, he brings a unique blend of sales expertise and academic knowledge.
Passionate about digital marketing, he specialises in targeting, paid promotion, and imaginative campaign strategies. Patrick's journey into the brewing industry began at university, culminating in a marketing plan focused on a Cotswold brewery. Combining a love for beer and agriculture, Charles Faram was a natural fit.
Patrick Whittle
Marketing Executive
Tel: +44 (0) 1905 967119
The UK sales team provides all of the knowledge and capability for a seamless order. From purely placing an order to technical advice that you may need in order to make an informed purchasing decision.
They also work closely with breweries on collaborations and recipe suggestions and Charlie in marketing develops promotions and projects to benefit customers.
Feel free to give your Sales Manager a call or contact the office if you would like to talk through anything from products to contracting. They’ll be happy to go through an expired hop contract, contract request, and usages. Technical Advisors are ready to get involved in recipe development and help with advice.