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Company type | Public |
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Industry | Drink industry |
Founded | 1877 |
Defunct | 1986 |
Fate | Acquired |
Successor | Guinness |
Headquarters | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
Products | Scotch whisky |
Parent | Diageo ![]() |
The Distillers Company plc was a leading Scotch whisky company and, at one time, a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It was taken over in 1986 by Guinness & Co. (now part of Diageo) in a transaction that was later found to have involved fraudulent activity, becoming known as the Guinness share-trading fraud.