The drinks company will introduce the new paternity scheme from July 1.

The Mansion House in Dublin will be getting almost 3,000 more free pints from Diageo next year.

The woman credited with rejuvenating the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has been axed from her job.

A 5% jump in Irish sales helped drinks giant Diageo beat half-year earnings and sales forecasts, which in turn drove its shares to a record high.

Drinks giant Diageo is offloading 19 brands including Parrot Bay rum to US firm Sazerac in a deal worth 550 million US dollars (€485m).

French drinks giant Pernod Ricard has raised its profit forecast for its current financial year, chiefly on the back of the latest strong showing for its Jameson Irish Whiskey brand.

Growth of Guinness in Ireland and the UK has helped Diageo increase sales by 4% in Europe as the firm said operating profits increased by 4% to £3.7bn (€4.16bn) for the year.

Guinness and Baileys maker Diageo and travel company TUI have warned about the costs of a hard Brexit.

The British boss of Diageo has warned the British government against triggering another downturn in Scotch whisky sales by serving up a tax hike in November's Budget.

Diageo, the maker of Johnnie Walker whisky and Smirnoff vodka, forecast stronger sales and profit growth in the second half of its financial year after a first half affected by negative factors in China and India and higher spending.

Diageo has cut the pay of its two top executives after the drinks group missed performance targets, joining other UK companies in reining in management awards amid political and investor calls for restraint.

Diageo has secured the go-ahead for its €25m plan to construct a new distillery at its St James’s Gate base in Dublin for its new premium blended Irish whiskey, Roe & Co.

Diageo returned to growth, reporting a profit gain above analysts’ estimates as improved demand for whiskey, tequila and vodka in the US offset declines in Brazil and China.

Smithwick’s will be the first brand in the Irish market to display new labels outlining alcohol content and nutritional information, according to Diageo Ireland.

Guinness owner, Diageo, has warned that the weakness of the euro and emerging market currencies, against sterling, could reduce annual profits by £150m (just over €200m) this year.

Guinness and Smirnoff owner Diageo said the strong pound will knock its profits by a bigger-than-expected £150m (€205.61m) this year.

Shares in Diageo — owner of Guinness and Smirnoff vodka — fell yesterday after it said the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into its distribution practices in the US, adding to its woes as frustrated investors question the performance of the distiller’s chief executive officer.

Shares in Guinness maker Diageo built up a head today as investors responded to reports that Brazil’s richest man was preparing a bid for the drinks maker.

Barnardo’s chief executive Fergus Finlay is determined to continue with the controversial Stop Out of Control Drinking campaign despite its funder, Diageo, withdrawing its representative from the board.

Diageo came up with a brilliant idea: use the 250th anniversary of the founding of Guinness to market their products. It was so successful that ‘Arthur’s Day’ became an annual event perhaps as significant in our calendars as St Patrick’s Day.

Diageo-funded campaign should be wound up and legislators need, for once, to put health of citizens ahead of interests of drinks industry, says James Doorley.

Drinks giant Diageo has pulled its representative from the board of the controversial alcohol aware ness campaign, which it also funds.

NOT before time, the Diageo boss in Ireland, David Smith, has withdrawn from the board of an alcohol awareness campaign established last month and which the international drinks conglomerate is funding to the tune of €1m.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has welcomed the decision by the head of Diageo Ireland to step down from the board of the 'Stop Out-of-Control Drinking' campaign.

Speculation is mounting that a third high-profile organisation has resigned from the board of the controversial Diageo-funded alcohol awareness campaign.

There has been another resignation from the board of the Diageo-funded Stop Out-of-Control Drinking campaign.

St Patrick’s Day, inextricably linked with excessive drinking and anti-social behaviour, is undergoing something of a rebranding. 

The Diageo-funded campaign against alcohol abuse is to continue using its latest advertisement despite criticism from rape counsellors that it targets victims of sex crimes.

Alcohol consumption levels increased last year, driven by hikes in wine and beer sales, provisional figures show.

The world’s biggest stout brewery was officially opened at St James’s Gate in Dublin today.

Long-serving Diageo chief executive Paul Walsh is calling time on 13 years in charge of the drinks giant.

Guinness firm Diageo has reported a 3% rise in net sales for the three months to March 31, as emerging markets growth offset weaker trade in Ireland, Greece and Spain.

The parent company of Guinness is threatening to leave the UK unless more attractive tax incentives are introduced.

Guinness is back in vogue with drinkers after figures today showed sales of the stout rising for the first time since 2001.

Diageo has announced continued growth across all key measures with organic growth of 3% volume, 5% growth in net sales and 8% growth operating profit before exceptional items in the first half of fiscal 2005.