There are also significant gaps in its non-spirits portfolio. Guinness is its only global beer and in 2015, Diageo agreed to divest virtually all of its small wine business, mostly to Treasury Wines Estates.

forcing the company to find new golden drugs to fill the gap. Early in 1998, the group announced that it was in merger talks with American Home Products (now Wyeth), a development superseded only a

To fill the gap in its knowledge, it agreed an alliance in 1962 with New York agency Sullivan Stauffer Colwell & Bayles (SSC&B). Founded in 1946 by Raymond Sullivan, Donald Stauffer, Robert Colwell, and

narrowing the gap a little (but only a little) with the mighty Dentsu. They retain separate branding but some services are pooled. For example, Hakuhodo Media Partners handles the three agencies' media

allowed Coca-Cola to close the gap considerably in 2008 and then overtake its long-time rival. The two companies remain neck-and-neck. For several years, Coca-Cola also controlled US coconut water Zico,

Gap Inc named Mark Breitbard as new CEO of its struggling Banana Republic division. He will arrive in May; his predecessor Andi Owen left the group in February. Pfizer once again dominated the pharmaceutical

closing the gap with AT&T and Verizon. T-Mobile has promised not to raise its prices for three years and to roll-out a national 5G service by 2022. Despite federal approval, though, the separate lawsuit

HP closed the gap on rival Lenovo during 3Q 2016, bringing the two tech groups neck-and-neck in the global PC market, according to figures from IDC. Growth at HP lifted the US company's global share to

closing the gap with Comcast's current footprint of 27m subscribers. Liberty would end up with a 25% voting stake in the enlarged business. The Newhouse family, owners of the Advance/Newhouse media empire

opportunity than ever before to take advantage of gaps in the marketplace and continue our significant growth in driving positive business outcomes for our clients. In evaluating the next evolution of