A leading business analyst has branded the company socially irresponsible. This particular act of social irresponsibility is not about Kilmarnock and Port Dundas in Glasgow where a further 200 jobs are to go – but about Diageo’s UK tax avoidance. As For Argyll has previously reported, between 2000 and 2006, Diageo transferred billions of pounds [...]

Le gouverneur du Katanga, l’honorable Moise Katumbi Chapwe a reçu une délégation mixte des entreprises Diageo et Brasimba le 27 mars dernier. Cette délégation est venue annoncer à l’autorité provinciale le projet de distribution d’eau potable ainsi que la production locale de la bière Guiness, un des huit produit de la gamme de cette bière [...]

Greenbang likes the odd tipple (not before lunchtime, mind) so it’s pleased to see that drinks giant Diageo, which makes the likes of Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Tanqueray, is to build a £65m state-of-the-art bioenergy facility at Cameronbridge in Fife – Scotland’s largest distillery.Not surprisingly Diageo is raising a toast to the new facility, [...]

The Food & Beverage industry is consolidating its ethical record thanks to labour and environmental initiatives, but it has to fight hard to demonstrate the social utility of its products, states a report published today by Geneva-based ethical reputation research firm Covalence – Covalence Food & Beverage Industry Report 2007. The Food & Beverage industry [...]

When Dutch brewer Heineken and British drinks group Diageo teamed up with a non-profit organisation to help African farmers grow sorghum, little did they realise that their social experiment would turn into a sustainable business. Heineken and Diageo, which owns the stout brand Guinness, started work with Brussels-based European Co-operative for Rural Development more than [...]