EU: Diageo Europe chief shrugs off minimum pricing threat
By James Wilmore | 3 April 2012
The head of Diageo Europe has branded UK minimum pricing a "very bad way to target the problem", but has shrugged off the proposed law change as being a "long way off".
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The head of Diageo Europe has branded UK minimum pricing a "very bad way to target the problem", but has shrugged off the proposed law change as being a "long way off".

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