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Guinness is attempting to become more popular in Indonesia, where alcohol is mostly frowned up by the predominantly Muslim population. The company has developed non-alcoholic Guinness in a bid to win over those who shun alcoholic beverages. [...] The new non-alcoholic beer is called Guinness Zero and is said to be selling very well. There are no plans, however, to sell it anywhere else. The Guinness move comes after after the Indonesian government banned the sale of beer in convenience stores from April 2015 and other small stores. Guinness will continue to sell its regular brew in large supermarkets and...

An Australian woman has won a multi-million dollar payout from UK company Diageo PLC, the local distributor of the drug Thalidomide that caused birth defects in thousand of babies around the world in the 1960s, her lawyers said on Wednesday. Lynette Rowe, 50, was born without arms and legs after her mother Wendy took Thalidomide for a month while pregnant. At the time the drug was prescribed as a treatment for morning sickness. The settlement with Rowe could pave the way for more than 100 other Thalidomide victims in Australia and New Zealand to receive compensation through a class action,...

If you didn't before, you sure do now. That's why he's got that grin on his face. It's not rum in the Captain's barrel, you see. It's your booty. According to Bloomberg.com, Diageo Plc, the maker of Captain Morgan rum, was essentially given... wait for it... $2.7 billion in tax incentives to move its production from Puerto Rico to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). That's a lot of other people's money to be rearranging like barstools on our Titanic of an economy. WHAT'S A PIRATE'S FAVORITE LAW? TAaaRrrP. The article notes that USVI Governor John deJongh, Jr. had no idea...

[London-based liquor giant] Diageo, along with other companies such as Burger King Holdings, the builders of Nascar racing tacks and movie and television producers, are some of the unlikely beneficiaries of the emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program approved by Congress in the fall. As we know now (and even then) there was a lot of confusion surrounding the legislation with impending elections, threats of economic collapse and pressure from the Whitehouse, which enabled several hidden tax breaks for non-bank companies like the ones we listed above, reports Bloomberg. Recall that in June of 2008 the U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John...

New York, NY – The Diageo/Hotline Daily Tracker Poll finds that John McCain used last week’s Republican National Convention to bounce back from a 6-point deficit against Barack Obama in our September 5 Poll to make the race a dead-heat with 44% of voters supporting McCain, 44% of voters supporting Obama and 10% undecided.Presidential General Election, McCain-Palin vs. Obama-Biden, September 5 to 7, 2008 McCain-Palin Obama-Biden Undecided 44% 44% 10% Favorability Ratings for Presidential Candidates and their Running Mates, September 5 to 7, 2008   McCain Obama Palin Biden Favorable 54% 54% 48% 48% Unfavorable 38% 38% 24% 26% Ratings...

Former Clinton political hitman James Carville, who recently touted New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for a 2008 presidential run, is reportedly behind an advertising campaign attacking President Bush for his 1990 sale of Harken Energy stock as well as his ties to the oil industry in general. American Family Voices, a group described by the New York Times as "secretive," has paid to run a 30-second commercial on cable news programs in Washington, D.C., and in New York through Thursday. The ad blasts President Bush as "sly like a fox" for talking down his dealings with Harken Energy, which Democrats...