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Diageo Headquarters & offices · London, United Kingdom
Diageo · London, United Kingdom
A Soho headquarters built around Diageo's brands, with a bar, a restaurant and a shop open to the public.
Inside 16 Great Marlborough Street, the benefits, and the road from Guinness's 1759 brewery lease in Dublin to a Soho head office — then the pay. Every number from Diageo's own filings, website and the project team's pages.
- 900London staff brought under one roof
- 26 weeksfully paid maternity leave, worldwide minimum
- 88%of employees proud to work at Diageo (2026)
- £65,879median UK employee pay, FY2026
Sources: Diageo press release, Jul 30, 2019 · Form 20-F FY2026 · diageo.com family leave story (2023) · Lazari and MCM project pages
Companies / United Kingdom / Beverages & spirits / Diageo
THE HEADQUARTERS · 16 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET · 2022
A 1990s building in Soho, reworked into Diageo's brand home
Diageo pre-let the whole building in 2019 and the developer reworked the existing structure, widening the floor plates instead of rebuilding. Interior designer MCM set out to make a place where “workspace, brand, hospitality and experiences” meet: there is an immersive customer collaboration centre, bar and entertaining spaces, a commercial kitchen and restaurant, and a Diageo shop open to the public. Diageo said its employees would help design their own workspace.
- 104,140 sq ft (≈ 9,675 m²)
- Lower ground floor to level 7
- Interior design: MCM
- BREEAM Excellent · EPC A
- 330 cycle spaces
- BCO National Award 2023
Brand home: reception, bars and hospitality
Interior designer MCM set out to make a place where workspace, brand, hospitality and experiences meet, with bar and entertaining spaces, a commercial kitchen and restaurant.
Workspace floors
The developer reworked the existing 1990s structure, widening the floor plates, to create 104,140 sq ft of space from the lower ground floor to level 7.
The building on Great Marlborough Street
Diageo pre-let the whole building at 16 Great Marlborough Street in 2019 and moved its global headquarters there in 2022.
Facts: Diageo press release (Jul 30, 2019) · MCM “BCO Awards 2023” page · Lazari property and sustainability pages · PIP project page. Photos are added later with credit to the project team; we remove any photo on request.
The building and the team behind it
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Global headquarters | 16 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HS, United Kingdom |
Source: Form 20-F FY2026 (principal executive office) · See them on the map ↓
Source: Lazari property page “16 Great Marlborough Street” · MCM “BCO Awards 2023” page · diageo.com “Our history” (2022)
Office tour videos
Benefits (global policies)
Every new mother gets at least 26 weeks fully paid, under the global Family Leave policy (2019).
Fully paid in many markets, including the UK, North America, Spain and Australia; at least 4 weeks everywhere.
The family leave policy supports all parents, regardless of gender, sexual orientation or how they become a parent.
Given to all 17,000 eligible employees in fiscal 2025 through the One World share plan.
Free, confidential counselling and advice for employees and their families (Employee Assistance Programme).
Employees in 10 countries using the ‘nudge’ financial-education platform.
Hours, patterns or a home–office blend, agreed with your manager and team.
Source: diageo.com story “Celebrating our Family Leave Policy” (2023) · diageo.com/careers (Wellbeing, FAQs) · Form 20-F FY2026
Why people stay: what Diageo itself says
In the February 2026 employee survey, 10 points above the external benchmark.
Share of General Manager appointments filled internally over the past three years.
Given on the ‘Celebrate’ platform in fiscal 2026 — about one every three minutes.
Employees who completed digital or AI training in fiscal 2026.
Working hours, patterns or a blend of home and office, agreed with your team.
Groups that help people connect, learn from each other and feel included.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026, “Our people and culture” · diageo.com/careers (Wellbeing and flexible working)
Who works here
average employees, FY2026
of senior managers are women
overall engagement score (2026)
of employees work outside the UK
Source: Form 20-F FY2026 (employees by region, role and gender; engagement; workforce outside the UK)
Pay at Diageo
Diageo's UK pay-ratio disclosure (UK employees only). The CEO's total pay was 43 times this amount; the median salary alone was £48,921.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026, Directors' remuneration report (CEO pay ratio, Option A)
Diageo does not report pay by age. The UK pay ratio above is the closest official figure.
Office history: from St. James's Gate to Soho
- 1759 St. James's Gate, Dublin — the Guinness lease
Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease on a disused property at St. James's Gate, Dublin, and starts brewing. The company that is today Diageo plc was incorporated as Arthur Guinness Son and Company Limited on October 21, 1886.
Source: diageo.com “Our history” · Form 20-F FY2026
St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin · David Dixon / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1997 Diageo is born from a merger
Grand Metropolitan and Guinness merge in December 1997 to form Diageo; Guinness PLC is renamed Diageo plc.
Source: Form 20-F 2002 and FY2026 · diageo.com “Our history”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2002 8 Henrietta Place, Marylebone
Diageo's principal executive office is at 8 Henrietta Place, London W1G 0NB, just north of Oxford Street. It stays there until at least late 2009.
Source: Form 20-F 2002, 2003 and 2009 (cover page)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2010 Lakeside Drive, Park Royal
By the 2010 annual report the head office has moved to Lakeside Drive, Park Royal, London NW10 7HQ, in west London. Park Royal was also the site of a Guinness brewery, listed in 2002 among Diageo's principal brewing facilities.
Source: Form 20-F 2002, 2009 and 2010
Lakeside Drive, Park Royal · N Chadwick / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2019 Decision to move to central London
Near the end of its Park Royal lease, Diageo announces it will bring all 900 London employees together at 16 Great Marlborough Street, cutting 200,000 sq ft of combined office space to about 105,000 sq ft.
Source: Diageo press release, Jul 30, 2019
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2021–22 A turnkey rebuild of a 1990s building
Landlord Lazari delivers a 104,140 sq ft fit-out for £45 million, keeping and reworking the existing structure to cut embodied carbon.
Source: Lazari property and sustainability pages
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2022 The new global HQ opens in Soho
Diageo moves its global headquarters from Park Royal to 16 Great Marlborough Street, W1.
Source: diageo.com “Our history”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2023 Best workplace fit-out in the UK
The headquarters wins the British Council for Offices regional and national awards for Best Fit Out of Workplace.
Source: MCM “BCO Awards 2023” page · Lazari property page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| Press release 2019 | 200,000 | 18,581 | Combined London office space before the move |
| Lazari 2022 | 104,140 | 9,675 | 16 Great Marlborough Street office fit-out |
Map: how the headquarters moved
From a brewery lease in Dublin to three London head offices: Marylebone, out west to Park Royal, then back into the centre — Soho, a few minutes' walk from the first London office.
- 1 · 1759St. James's Gate, Dublin — Arthur Guinness leases the brewery site
- 2 · 20028 Henrietta Place, London W1G 0NB — Head office in Marylebone (by 2002 to at least 2009)
- 3 · 2010Lakeside Drive, Park Royal, London NW10 7HQ — Head office in west London (2010–2022)
- 4 · 202216 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HS — Global headquarters in Soho, today
Addresses: diageo.com “Our history” · Form 20-F 2002, 2009, 2010 and 2026
What Diageo does
Diageo was formed in 1997 when Grand Metropolitan and Guinness merged. It makes spirits and beer — Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness among them — sold in about 180 countries, from 110+ manufacturing sites.
Five regional operating segments: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and Africa (plus Corporate).
Where the money came from · Net sales by region · FY2026
Source: Form 20-F FY2026, segment information (Corporate net sales of $162M not shown)
Source: Form 20-F FY2026 (consolidated income statement) · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$20.5B → $19.6B
27,987 → 27,938
Fiscal years end June 30. Net sales in US dollars from Form 20-F 2024, 2025 and 2026 (Diageo reported in pounds before; FY2022 is the dollar figure restated in the 2024 20-F). Employees: average number, Form 20-F of each year. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Appointed in January 2026. Former Group CEO of Tesco and Chair of Haleon; earlier ran Unilever's Personal Care and Americas businesses.
CFO who served as Interim Chief Executive from July 16 to December 31, 2025.
Rejoined the Board as Chief Executive on June 8, 2023, after the death of Sir Ivan Menezes; in role until July 16, 2025.
Succeeded Paul Walsh on July 1, 2013, and led Diageo for ten years.
Chief Executive until June 30, 2013.
Formed in 1997 by the merger of Grand Metropolitan plc and Guinness plc.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026 (Board biographies, CEO pay ratio notes), FY2023 and 2013
Diageo: questions people ask
Where is Diageo's headquarters?
At 16 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HS, in Soho. Diageo moved its global headquarters there from Park Royal, west London, in 2022.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026 · diageo.com “Our history”
Who designed Diageo's London headquarters?
The interior was designed by MCM. The building was developed and delivered by its landlord, Lazari Investments, with ISG as contractor, Cundall as M&E engineer and JLL as project manager.
Source: MCM “BCO Awards 2023” page · Lazari property page
How big is Diageo's headquarters?
The office fit-out covers 104,140 sq ft (≈ 9,675 m²), from the lower ground floor to level 7. It replaced about 200,000 sq ft of combined London office space.
Source: Lazari property page · PIP project page · Diageo press release, Jul 30, 2019
Can the public visit Diageo's headquarters?
The building includes a retail space open to the public, where consumers can buy Diageo brands. The offices and brand experience areas are for employees and customers.
Source: Diageo press release, Jul 30, 2019 · Lazari property page
Is Diageo's headquarters sustainable?
Yes. The landlord says it is carbon zero in operation, rated BREEAM Excellent and EPC A, and has 330 cycle spaces with end-of-trip facilities.
Source: Lazari property and sustainability pages
What parental leave does Diageo offer?
Under its 2019 global Family Leave policy, every new mother gets at least 26 weeks fully paid. In many markets, including the UK and North America, new fathers also get 26 weeks fully paid; elsewhere the minimum is four weeks.
Source: diageo.com story “Celebrating our Family Leave Policy” (2023)
Does Diageo allow flexible or hybrid work?
Diageo says it has always taken a progressive approach to flexible working: people agree with their team on hours, patterns or a blend of home and office.
Source: diageo.com/careers (Wellbeing and flexible working) · Form 20-F FY2026
How many people work at Diageo?
An average of 27,938 people in fiscal 2026 (year ended June 30, 2026): 10,345 in Europe, 8,028 in Asia Pacific, 4,385 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 3,110 in North America and 2,070 in Africa.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026
How much do Diageo employees make?
The median UK employee received £65,879 in total pay and benefits in fiscal 2026, with a median salary of £48,921. The CEO's pay was 43 times the median.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026, Directors' remuneration report
Who is Diageo's CEO?
Sir Dave Lewis, former Group CEO of Tesco, who became Chief Executive on January 1, 2026.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026
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