UK-based drinks company Diageo has reportedly said that it would challenge the claim by its Indian subsidiary United Spirits Ltd (USL) chairman Vijay Mallya, who alleged that Diageo failed to enter into a joint venture with him in the ...
Tags: emerging markets, Diageo, drinks
UK-based drinks company Diageo has completed the sale of Jamaican lager Red Stripe to Heineken for $780.5m. The deal, which was announced in October, entails Diageo offloading its brewing companies in Jamaica, Malaysia and Singapore, to ...
Tags: Diageo, Jamaican lager Red Stripe, Food
It was a full house for the Packaging Council of Australia's Australian Packaging Design Awards presentation in Melbourne on 12 November. Brand owners, pack designers and packaging suppliers involved in the design projects selected as ...
Tags: Packaging Design
A complex shrink sleeve printing job that achieved what judges described as an “outstanding result in a category in which it's difficult to be innovative” and that showed “technical excellence in bringing a design to ...
Tags: shrink sleeve, packaging, printing
India-based United Breweries Group is seeking a buyer for its residual 4% stake in United Spirits worth Rs 22bn ($331m) to repay its loans. The development may also see its chairman Vijay Mallya quit his position in United Spirits by ...
Tags: UB Group, United Spirits
Diageo’s Indian unit United Spirits is planning to cut down around 150 of its brands to focus on better performing brands and strengthen its business in a market that is seemingly dominated by local, cheaper brands. The British ...
London-based Diageo and Dutch firm Heineken plan to exchange brewing assets in emerging markets, a move which will help Diageo generate a profit of £440m ($671m). Diageo is divesting its stakes in its joint ventures in Jamaica and ...
British alcoholic beverages company Diageo is including nutritional information on the packaging of its whisky brand Crown Royal to provide readily available facts to consumers. Crown Royal is the first alcohol beverage brand to ...
British multinational alcoholic beverages company Diageo is trialling non-alcoholic beer Guinness Zero in Indonesia. Non-alcoholic beer has gained traction in Indonesia following the government's ban on sale of beer in convenience stores ...
Tags: Alcoholic Beer, Chinese cuisine
Earlier this month packaging expert Des King discussed why looks count and first impressions matter when it comes to building market share. Here, he continues his exploration of digital packaging, mobile technology, and the industry's ...
Tags: Digital Packaging, packaging
China based Swellfun, the subsidiary of Diageo, has terminated its CNY2.3bn ($370m) Chinese liquor brand industrial park project owing to the recent anti-graft campaign in the country. As cited in Guangzhou's Time Weekly, the project was ...
Tags: Swellfun, misguided policies
Diageo and Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) have ended their collaboration, with the British drinks giant to handle Baileys and Gordons activity in-house. BBH, the British advertising agency, was associated with Diageo for 15-years. Made by ...
Tags: Baileys Irish Cream, whiskey, cream
Diageo has launched the new Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, paying homage to the Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Louisville. Diageo has introduced the new offering in two variants - Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon ...
British alcoholic beverages company Diageo has invested $5.33m for a new canning line in Canada, which distills and bottles a variety of Diageo brands. Diageo is expanding its canning facility in Valleyfield, Quebec, with the addition of ...
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Plans for labelling the calorie content of alcoholic beverages should be tabled by the European Commission at the latest in 2016, according to members of the European Parliament. The resolution calls for a new EU Alcohol Strategy focusing ...