Diageo - Name

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Diageo is an invented name which was created by the branding consultancy Wolff Olins in 1997. The name is composed of the Latin word "dias", meaning day, and the Greek root "geo", meaning world, and is meant to reference the company giving pleasure every day, everywhere.

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