Diageo tops UK’s good governance index

The Institute of Director’s annual ranking of listed companies for their performance on good governance indicators sees distiller lead the way.

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Diageo, the owner of drink brands such as Jonnie Walker, Guinness and Baileys, has a topped rankings for good corporate governance in the UK.
The Institute of Directors annual ranking, the Good Governance Report, now its third year, revealed Diageo on top followed by Aviva in second and GKN in third.
The IoD said: "The purpose of this project is to reignite the governance debate by leading it away from the compliance approach to corporate governance that has become widespread in recent years. Our novel approach is to combine traditional governance indicators with a measure of the quality of corporate governance as perceived by stakehold
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