Diageo has its head office in Park Royal and in the London Borough of Brent, on a former Guinness brewery property.

However the owner of Johnnie Walker, Diageo, has announced that they will be closing the bottling plant in the town by the end of 2011, thus ending a 189 year link with the whisky brand and the town.

Andrew Barclay, Son's & Co is now owned by Wabtec ( Wabtec Rail Scotland ) and Johnnie Walker still survives and it currently owned by Diageo, who however decided to announce plans to pull the whisky out of Kilmarnock after 192 years and has been its home sine the 19th century.

Diageo has its primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Blair Athol sits on the main road at the east of town and since 1933 has been owned by Bell's, now part of the Diageo group.

Ever since she turned cricket show anchor, she has hosted over 150 corporate events, shows and awards for companies like Asian Paints, HSBC, Cartier, ICICI bank, ING vysya, Anand Bazaar Patrika Group, Samsung, L & T, Deutshche Bank, BMW, Audi, LG, Canon, Citibank, Diageo, Accenture and Puma.

It was first produced in 1823 by James Pimm and has been owned by Diageo since 1997.

The major employer now is the drinks manufacturer Diageo which has its main bottling plant in the town, and one of the largest distilleries in the world at Cameron Bridge, near Windygates.

With high-profile assignments from multinationals such as BP, Diageo, Philips, France Telecom, InBev, British Airways, Scottish Power, Endesa, and Vodafone, Sullivan & Cromwell has carved out a niche in cross-border M & A.

Diageo has significantly increased production at the distillery and hopes to double production by 2011.

The tournament was founded in 1999 as the Scottish PGA Championship, and despite maintaining the same sponsor, has since changed name on several occasions, as Diageo has looked to promote different brands.

Since 2005, the spirits company Diageo has used a similar concept in Brazil to discourage drunk driving.

He also established the University of Ulster's first Development Office in Belfast and has worked for Guinness plc ( now Diageo ) as PR and as a director in Belfast of ABSA ( now Arts and Business ).

Dalwhinnie has become famous worldwide because it is marketed by its owners, United Distillers unit of Diageo, under their Classic Malts brand, launched in 1988.

Pernod Ricard successfully completed acquisition on 26 July 2005 and sold off the overlapping spirits brands to U. S .- based competitor Fortune Brands and British giant Diageo.

The parental disregard of the Burger King brand continued through Grand Metropolitan's merger with Guinness in 1997, when the two organizations formed the new holding company Diageo.

Neglect of Burger King by new owner Grand Met and its successor Diageo, further hurt the standing of the brand, causing significant financial damage to BK franchises and straining relations between the parties.

In June 2012 Diageo announced a £ 1 billion investment in Scotch whisky production over the following five years, with at least one new distillery to be constructed, several existing facilities to be expanded, and overall production capacity to be increased by 30 to 40 per cent.

As part of this expansion in Leven, Diageo culled a herd of roe deer living on the site to make way for new buildings.

In 2004, a new company was established in South Africa known as brandhouse through a joint venture of Diageo, Heineken and Namibian Breweries.

The successful introduction of the Chicken Whopper was one of the few noted positive highlights of the company during negotiations for the sale of Burger King by its the owner Diageo to a group of investors lead by the TPG Capital ; Chicago-based consulting firm Technomic Inc. president Ron Paul was quoted that he was encouraged by recent product changes at Burger King such as the new Chicken Whopper, but he said it's too early to tell whether the changes have been successful.

Diageo made an announcement on June 24, 2008 that it intends to build and operate a new rum distillery on St. Croix, Virgin Islands beginning in 2010 and to source from it beginning at the end of their current supply contract in 2012.

In 2000, the Bundaberg Rum company and distillery were sold to British company Diageo.

The distillery is operated by United Distillers and Vintners for Diageo, and is marketed as part of their Classic Malts series.

In June 2005, the distillery was bought by Diageo for £ 200 million.

Its production ceased in 2005 following Diageo's takeover of the distillery, as Diageo owns Bailey's Irish Cream.

Diageo planned to move its head office to Brent from Central London when the lease on the Central London office expired in 2010.

These steps included the acquisition on June 2, 2008 of substantially all of the assets of the Pennsylvania Brewery from Diageo North America, Inc. From 2007 to 2009, core product volume brewed at company-owned breweries increased from approximately 35 % to over 95 %.

Shares in Diageo began trading on the London Stock Exchange on 17 December 1997.

He started his business career in 1965 with Procter & Gamble in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, going on to hold senior marketing and general management appointments in a range of companies, including Readers Digest, National Semiconductor, Coats Viyella and the whisky firm United Distillers, now part of the drinks conglomerate Diageo.

As part of the acquisition C & C will also exclusively distribute Inbev brands on the island of Ireland, with the exception of the Anheuser – Busch InBev version of Budweiser, which is distributed historically by Diageo.

Diageo Supports Ban on “ Alcohol Without Liquid ” ( AWOL ) Machine.

Simon Mann's father, George Mann, captained the England cricket team in the late 1940s and was an heir to a stake in the Watney Mann brewing empire that closed in 1979, having been acquired by Grand Metropolitan ( which, in 1997, became Diageo plc on its merger with Guinness ).

In 2004 the multinational Diageo company agreed to build extra Central line platforms at Park Royal tube station to the east, as part of its First Central business park, built on the site of the ( now demolished ) Guinness brewery.

In 2004, the multinational Diageo company agreed to build Central line platforms at Park Royal station to the west of North Acton, as part of its First Central business park, built on the site of the now demolished Guinness brewery.

In November 2009, the NFL banned a covert ad campaign, allegedly put on by Diageo.

It was understood that for each NFL player striking the " Captain Morgan " pose on camera during a regular season game, Diageo would donate $ 10, 000 to the Gridiron Greats ( a non-profit which helps retired NFL players with various hardships after leaving the game ).

However, Diageo announced that they would not return to the # 17 team, instead focusing their NASCAR efforts on the Brickyard 400 sponsorship.

According to the Diageo web site, Myer's rum uses only " pure Jamaican molasses " and is " produced from continuous and pot still distillation and is then matured for up to four years on white oak barrels ".

Diageo press release, January 26, 2005.

Diageo moved its employees to the Park Royal site.

Part of the Johnnie Walker operation will be moved to a Diageo site at Leven, Fife, with the creation of 400 jobs there.