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Diageo

  • Diageo shares fall despite strength in premium drinks sales as US market disappoints

    Expensive habits

    Diageo reported an increase in profit and beat analyst expectations for sales growth but investors were disappointed by the company’s performance in the US market, sending shares down over six per cent in morning trade.  In the six months to 31 December, the world’s largest spirits manufacturer’s pretax profit increased to £3.1bn from £2.7bn  On [...]

  • Cocktail of costs: How inflation is expected to squeeze spirit-maker Diageo’s sales and profit despite Christmas boost

    Spirits

    Spirits giant Diageo is expected to report a slowdown in sales and profits next week as consumer spending steadies. However, analysts have predicted that the Johnnie Walker and Baileys maker could deliver a resilient showing when it reveals its half-year update to shareholders on Thursday, January 26. A consensus of analysts have predicted that the [...]

  • NatWest chief Rose receives Damehood in King’s first new year’s honours list

    new year's honours list

    The head of high street and still partly taxpayer owned NatWest Alison Rose will receive a Damehood in King Charles’s first new year’s honours list since succeeding The Queen. Rose, 53, became the first woman to head a top UK lender when she was made chief executive in November 2019.  She has been awarded a [...]

  • Diageo toasts ‘good start’ to year as drinkers’ thirst resilient despite economic slump

    October 6, 2022

    Guinness owner Diageo has raised a glass to resilient demand for drinks despite a consumer spending slowdown. In a brief trading update on Thursday morning, the London-listed beverage giant said it had made a “good start” to its 2023 fiscal year.  Chief executive Ivan Menezes noted “organic net sales growth across all regions” as the [...]

  • Sales overflow for drink giants Diageo and AB InBev as consumers still opt for pricey tipples

    July 28, 2022

    Global drinks titans Diageo and AB InBev have reported overflowing sales after the easing of Covid lockdowns has driven punters back into bars. Johnnie Walker maker Diageo posted net sales of £15.5bn, an increase of 21.4 per cent, which it accredited to the pub and bar sector recovering from the side effects of Covid 19 [...]

  • In good spirits: Diageo shares rise after Guinness owner forecasts sales growth

    November 16, 2021

    Guinness owner Diageo has said it expects organic net sales growth of at least 16 per cent in the first half of its new financial year. The announcement sent shares in the alcohol giant rocketing more than 3 per cent on Tuesday morning, to a high of £39.48.  At its capital markets day, the beverage-maker [...]

  • Better-than-expected recovery for Guinness maker Diageo despite supply chain woes

    September 30, 2021

    Guinness maker Diageo reported this morning strong recent trading with a better-than-expected recovery in Europe despite mounting supply chain woes. Shares in the FTSE 100 listed group are up by nearly 3 per cent. The group, which also makes Gordon’s gin and Smirnoff vodka, said it was seeing a solid start to its new financial [...]

  • Guinness owner Diageo sales jump as it toasts reopening

    July 29, 2021

    Spirits group Diageo has beaten expectations for full-year sales as it gears up the reopening of bars and nightclubs across Europe. The booze business, which owns brands such as Guinness, Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff, reported net sales of £12.7bn in the year to the end of June, up 8.3 per cent on the previous year. [...]

  • FTSE 100 outperforms global peers as Wall Street opens lower

    May 12, 2021

    London’s FTSE 100 rebounded today after stronger-than-expected GDP data bolstered optimism about a sharp economic recovery. The blue-chip index rose 0.9 per cent this afternoon, with drinks giant Diageo adding 4.1 per cent after forecasting profit growth and restarting its capital return programme. Elsewhere, Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower this afternoon after better-than-expected inflation [...]

  • Guinness owner Diageo restarts £1bn capital return plan after strong recovery

    May 12, 2021

    Shareholders in drinks giant Diageo are set to receive billions of pounds in share buybacks as the firm’s Covid recovery enabled the restart of its return of capital programme. Diageo, the owner of Guinness and Smirnoff, this morning said it was restarting its capital return programme after a strong financial recovery, led by North America. [...]

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