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Diageo Embarks On Cost-Cutting Drive

Drinks giant Diageo has revealed that it is to take layers out of its management structure, to simplify the business and save more than £200m a year by 2017. CEO Ivan Menezes said: “This will create a more agile, accountable and effective organisation”.

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