Diageo’s track record of unethical business practices speaks for itself. From its CEO lying on TV to appalling marketing campaigns, this alcohol giant is doing it all…
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BLOG: Spinning The Truth: Diageo CEO Lies On TV
Diageo is not an ordinary company. This is not an ordinary CEO. Spinning the truth until it becomes a lie is not normal, even if it is standard in the alcohol industry. Diageo’s products are not ordinary commodities but harmful for individuals, families, communities and societies at large. Apparently Diageo is intent on evading responsibility, rather burdening society with paying the costs for the harms its products and marketing cause, instead of acting responsibly and ethically…
NEWS: Diageo: New Tax Schemes Exposed
Diageo is implicated in government investigations in both France and the United Kingdom for alleged tax schemes. The recent suspicions are part of a long track record of tax irregularities and tax avoidance schemes…
NEWS: Thailand: Probe Into Diageo Bribery Case Urged
Thailand: Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is urged to probe Diageo-Thaksin government bribery case…
NEWS: Goldman Sachs: Diageo, BAT BREXIT Winners
Big Alcohol, Diageo are BREXIT winners?
Analyst at Goldman Sachs is recommending investments in Diageo, the world’s largest liquor producer, and in British American Tobacco. The giant multinational corporations Diageo, the maker of Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky and Guinness beer, and British American Tobacco (BTI), the owner of Lucky Strike, Dunhill and Pall Mall cigarettes, stand to profit from the consequences of the British exit from the European Union (BREXIT)…
NEWS: Diageo: Lobbying To Lower Liquor Tax
Diageo: Lobbying to lower liquor tax
Diageo, the world’s largest liquor producer, is lobbying the government in Mexico aggressively to stop taxing liquor products by price and switch to an alcohol tax regime based on a rate levied by alcohol content…
BLOG: Beckham And Diageo: Alcohol Marketing Violates Child Rights
David Beckham and alcohol industry giant Diageo put their own profits over the rights and well-being of children around the world. And those who are supposed to curb harmful marketing practices stand idly by…
NEWS: Cameroon Increases Alcohol Taxes
The Cameroonian government has issued the new Finance Act 2019, in it providing for an increase in alcohol prices as of January 15, 2019…
PRESS RELEASE: Joint Statement Of Concern On Shrinking Civil Society Space And Increasing Private Sector Exclusivity At UN
Civil society groups express deep concern about presence of harmful industries at the United Nations and during the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development…
NEWS: NIH Shuts Down Controversial Alcohol Study
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated a controversial study examining whether consuming small amounts of alcohol every day could improve health. An investigation at the NIH concluded that the $100 million trial had been tainted by funding appeals to the alcohol industry, and its credibility compromised by frequent and early interactions between alcohol industry executives, scientists and government officials…
