Diageo - Revision history

Richard Bew: /* Former lobbying firms */

2016-02-03T17:03:46Z

Former lobbying firms

Melissa Jones: /* External lobbying help */

2015-06-25T14:44:34Z

External lobbying help

Melissa Jones: /* Revolving door */

2015-06-25T14:39:39Z

Revolving door

Josh Leeson at 11:36, 3 February 2015

2015-02-03T11:36:42Z

Josh Leeson at 11:17, 3 February 2015

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Josh Leeson at 16:39, 29 January 2015

2015-01-29T16:39:43Z

Josh Leeson: /* External lobbying help */

2015-01-29T13:00:35Z

External lobbying help

Josh Leeson: /* External lobbying help */

2015-01-29T12:58:20Z

External lobbying help

Josh Leeson at 12:56, 29 January 2015

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Josh Leeson at 11:18, 22 December 2014

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	:The firm - one of the biggest funders of responsible drinking campaigns in the UK - and high-profile CEO [[Paul Walsh]] have in the past come out forcefully against minimum alcohol pricing and steep alcohol tax increases, as well as questioning the link between excessive drinking and advertising.<ref>Matt Cartmell, [http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1017459/drinks-giant-diageo-hands-responsible-drinking-brief-edelman/ Drinks giant Diageo hands 'responsible drinking' brief to Edelman], PR Week UK, 22 July 2010, accessed 14 October 2011 </ref>		:The firm - one of the biggest funders of responsible drinking campaigns in the UK - and high-profile CEO [[Paul Walsh]] have in the past come out forcefully against minimum alcohol pricing and steep alcohol tax increases, as well as questioning the link between excessive drinking and advertising.<ref>Matt Cartmell, [http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1017459/drinks-giant-diageo-hands-responsible-drinking-brief-edelman/ Drinks giant Diageo hands 'responsible drinking' brief to Edelman], PR Week UK, 22 July 2010, accessed 14 October 2011 </ref>
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		+	*[[Portland PR]] now act as '''Diageo''''s PR representation <ref>[http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=Portland Portland PR clients, Sep-Nov15], ''APPC.org'', accessed 3 February 2016</ref>

	==EU Lobbying==		==EU Lobbying==

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 ==External lobbying help==
-*In July 2010 ''PRWeek'' reported that Diageo GB 'signed over its public affairs and responsible drinking campaigns to [[Edelman]] as it prepares to go to battle with the Government over changes to alcohol tax'.
+In July 2010 ''PRWeek'' reported that Diageo GB 'signed over its public affairs and responsible drinking campaigns to [[Edelman]] as it prepares to go to battle with the Government over changes to alcohol tax'.
 :This was against the backdrop of [[David Cameron]]'s planned reform of the Licensing Act along with a ban on below-cost selling and a policy decision on alcohol labelling.<ref> [http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=Edelman Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014] ''APPC'', accessed 29 January 2015 </ref>
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 ==Revolving door==
 *[[Lord Davies]] of Abersoch, former Minister for Trade Promotion and Investment [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills]] until May 2010 took up the role of non-executive director of Diageo in July 2010. The UK government's [[Advisory Committee on Business Appointments]] saw "no reason why he should not take up the appointment subject to a waiting period of 3 months from his last day in office, on the basis that he would not draw on any privileged information which was available to him as a Minister, and the condition that, for 2 years after leaving office he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of the firm." <ref> Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, Twelfth Annual Report, 2010-2011 </ref>
 ==External lobbying help==

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−	[[Category:Transnational Corporations]][[Category:Food and Agriculture Industry]][[Category:Alcohol Industry]][[Category:Alcohol]][[Category:Financial sector lobbying]] [[Category:Tax avoidance]][[Category:Revolving Door]]	+	[[Category:Transnational Corporations]][[Category:Food and Agriculture Industry]][[Category:Alcohol Industry]][[Category:Alcohol]][[Category:Financial sector lobbying]] [[Category:Tax avoidance]][[Category:Revolving Door]][[Category:EU Lobbying]]

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 ==Connections: industry, government and beyond==
 Diageo's close ties with government, and strong interests in lobbying it, help make sense of its involvement in the G8 summit of July 2005, which took place at Gleneagles, a hotel in Perthshire in Scotland owned by Diageo.  Diageo played a prominent role in the 2005 G8 Gleneagles Summit. Not only does it own the Gleneagles Hotel where the Summit took place, it has made its presence felt in determining the policies of the G8. As one of Africa's largest corporations, the company was part of the Business Contact Group of the Commission for Africa, which has essentially recommended a further opening up of markets in Africa to foreign investment (See Corporate Watch report, 'Bringing the G8 Home: Corporate Involvement in and around the G8 in Scotland 2005).  Diageo representatives participate in a wide range of governmental activities including membership on a number of groups and committees including:
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 :The firm - one of the biggest funders of responsible drinking campaigns in the UK - and high-profile CEO [[Paul Walsh]] have in the past come out forcefully against minimum alcohol pricing and steep alcohol tax increases, as well as questioning the link between excessive drinking and advertising.<ref>Matt Cartmell, [http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1017459/drinks-giant-diageo-hands-responsible-drinking-brief-edelman/ Drinks giant Diageo hands 'responsible drinking' brief to Edelman], PR Week UK, 22 July 2010, accessed 14 October 2011 </ref>
 ==Products and projects==

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−	[[Category:Transnational Corporations]][[Category:Food and Agriculture Industry]][[Category:Alcohol Industry]][[Category:Alcohol]][[Category:~~Finance~~ sector lobbying]] [[Category:Tax avoidance]][[Category:Revolving Door]]	+	[[Category:Transnational Corporations]][[Category:Food and Agriculture Industry]][[Category:Alcohol Industry]][[Category:Alcohol]][[Category:Financial sector lobbying]] [[Category:Tax avoidance]][[Category:Revolving Door]]