Kenya: Diageo appoints John Musunga as MD for SWC

Posted by - November 30, 2023

A Kenyan international business executive, John Musunga has been appointed to lead Diageo Africa’s newly established market covering South, West, and Central Africa (SWC). In line with Diageo Africa’s revamped operating model, John Musunga, who has been overseeing Guinness Nigeria since October last year and holds a non-executive director position at East African Breweries Limited

Ireland: Diageo invests US$27m in tripling production of Guinness 0.0 in Dublin

Posted by - July 6, 2023

Diageo’s Guinness has invested €25 million (US$27.25m) in a new facility at St. James’s Gate in Dublin, Ireland, to triple production of its zero-alcohol brand in response to a growing consumer taste for non-alcoholic drinks. The production facility includes six processing vessels with a total capacity of 500,000 hectolitres–almost 90m pints–and a two-story building where

Diageo, Unilever, others join forces to fight plastic waste in Africa

Posted by - March 27, 2019

Guinness Ghana Breweries PLC’s parent company Diageo, has co-founded the Africa Plastics Recycling Alliance to collaborate on plastics recycling and reprocessing in sub-Saharan Africa, with the explicit intent to focus on the economic opportunity it presents. Diageo also partnered  consumer goods multinationals, including Unilever, The Coca-Cola Company, Promisador and Nestlé, to launch the Africa Plastics