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News Drinks giant Diageo has appointed a new CIO to fill the seat left vacant after previous IT chief, Robin Dargue, left to join Royal Mail. Diageo's new CIO is Brian Franz who joins from rival PepsiCo International where he was senior VP and CIO.
[03 Mar 2008]
News Cobain is the latest in a series of high-profile CIO departures which have included the AA, Diageo, the Post Office and the Royal Mail. Group IT director Colin Cobain is leaving at the end of November after leading the IT implementation behind...
[14 Nov 2007]
whitepaper As the world's leading premium drinks business, Diageo requires little introduction. The BlackBerry from O2 seemingly provided the answer, though it had so far been untested within the Diageo empire. The benefits of BlackBerry are borne out by the...
[29 Oct 2007]
Comment I'll sell ourselves a bit more here - you don't get to write exclusives about major CIOs, their thinking, their career twists and turns, including appointments such as Robin Dargue going from Diageo to the Post Office or the AA losing its head of...
[17 Oct 2007]
Comment Unilever CIO Neil Cameron is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry, and joined the company in 2003 from Diageo where he was also CIO. Andy McCue talked to him, at silicon.com's CIO Forum in London, about moulding an IT team.
[17 Oct 2007]
News Royal Mail has hired the Diageo CIO to replace the outgoing David Burden, who retired this summer. His early career includes stints at Mars and Logica Financial Systems and he went on to become IS director at UDV, which became part of Guiness and...
[11 Oct 2007]
News Changing consumer trends and the new generation of young "digital natives" are forcing drinks giant Diageo to exploit new digital marketing channels such as the virtual world Second Life. Robin Dargue, Diageo's CIO and business process director...
[11 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Robin Dargue is a young, high-flying rising star of the profession and took over the role of CIO and business process director at drinks giant Diageo in 2003 - then aged just 36. Prior to that he had been business process director at the company...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Neil Cameron was brought in as consumer goods giant Unilever's first ever dedicated CIO in 2003 from Diageo and was one of the company's most senior external appointments for years. In 1999 Cameron became global IS director at Guinness and was...
[06 Jun 2007]
whitepaper Headquartered in London, Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks business. Diageo used SAP Consulting to help guide its implementation of mySAP Business Suite and SAP NetWeaver and move toward a services-oriented architecture.
[04 Apr 2007]
Comment He says: "I did all the senior IT jobs across what became Diageo. Of the four different types of CIO - paratrooper, consultant, professional, executive - the paratrooper is the strong and independent outsider usually headhunted in by the top...
[19 Sep 2006]
Comment It was a temporary IT job at RHM management services that started it all and Cameron has climbed the ladder steadily ever since at the likes of Diageo, Dixons, Guinness, Marks & Spencer and now Unilever.
[01 Sep 2005]
whitepaper Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company. In a strategic move to drive organic growth, Diageo has realigned itself behind its premium drinks business. As part of an overall commitment to quality, the company has focused on realigning...
[15 Jul 2004]
Comment IBM, meanwhile, announced a seven-year IT outsourcing contract with beverage company Diageo. Companies such as IBM, HP and EDS love to trumpet computer services contracts worth hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.
[05 Sep 2003]
News Earlier this month, it unveiled a seven-year IT outsourcing contract with beverage company Diageo. IBM has won IT services contracts worth about $260m with Boeing and a Korean cosmetics company, the latest of a series of services deals the tech...
[01 Sep 2003]
whitepaper To extend Guinness' global reach, its parent company - Diageo PLC, a London-based conglomerate that also owns other famous brands such as Smirnoff, Pillsbury, and Burger King - wanted to bolster Guinness' traditional book and television operations...
[14 Aug 2003]
News Diageo said it chose an IP system because it allows it to add special features including extension mobility, where a user can configure any phone as their own, and XML user services such as phone directory integration.
[21 Aug 2002]
News It is to be spun off from its parent company, drinks conglomerate Diageo. EDS-founder Ross Perot's eponymous venture Perot Systems has won a deal to run all of Burger King's IT systems. The Texas-based firm has been awarded the contract as Burger...
[06 Sep 2001]
News Diageo, owners of the Talisker whisky brand, did not return our calls for comment by the time of publication. Codenamed Talisker, the OS is aimed principally at handheld wireless devices but should appeal to manufacturers of a range of other thin...
[11 Apr 2001]
News Ebusiness procurement specialist, Ariba, has won a multimillion pound contract with food and drink giant, Diageo, to set up an Internet market for its suppliers. Diageo, which runs Burger King, Guinness, Haagen Dazs, Pillsbury and Smirnoff among...
[25 Jan 2000]
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