type public jse dg industry beverages founded 1918 headquarters kingston jamaica key people richard byles chairman products beers lagers malt beverages revenue jmd 9.13 billion 148 million 2005 number of employees 750 2007 website www.redstripebeer.com desnoes and geddes limited d & g is a jamaican brewer and beverage producer . it was formed in 1918 by eugene peter desnoes and thomas hargreaves geddes who combined their two shops into one business . 1 contents 1 products 1.1 dragon stout 2 ownership 3 references products edit d & g produces one of jamaica s best known exports red stripe beer and also exports old jamaica ginger beer . it brews other malt beverages for the local market under the brand names red stripe light dragon stout malta nonalcoholic smirnoff ice guinness and heineken . dragon stout edit dragon was introduced in 1920 . 2 its brewing process utilises a grade a two row european malt caramel roasted malt and dark brown sugar . 3 ownership edit only a small portion of d & g s shares are publicly traded . from 1993 until autumn 2015 guinness and smirnoff owner diageo owned a controlling stake in the company . in october 2015 dutch brewer heineken acquired diageo s stake taking its stake to 73.3 % . it stated it would launch a full bid for the shares it did not own . 4 d & g also made soft drinks including the popular ting but sold that division to pepsico in 1999 . citation needed references edit http www.oldjamaicagingerbeer.com contact dg.htm http web.archive.org web 20100414012824 http www.dragonstout.co.uk 80 brewery.aspx . archived from the original on april 14 2010 . retrieved july 14 2012 . missing or empty title help http web.archive.org web 20100414012824 http www.dragonstout.co.uk 80 brewery.aspx . archived from the original on april 14 2010 . retrieved july 14 2012 . missing or empty title help http www.bloomberg.com news articles 2015 10 07 heineken buys brewing stakes from diageo for 781 million v t e diageo people franz humer paul s. walsh beer brands guinness guinness black guinness foreign extra stout harp kilkenny satzenbrau senator keg smithwick s tusker windhoek spirits brands gin booth s gilbey s gordon s tanqueray liqueur baileys irish cream romana sambuca sheridan s rum bundaberg rum cacique captain morgan myers s rum pampero ron zacapa centenario vodka c roc ketel one popov silent sam smirnoff whisky bourbon bulleit bourbon canadian whisky crown royal seagram s seven crown yukon jack irish whiskey bushmills scotch whisky bell s black & white blair athol buchanan s caol ila cardhu classic malts of scotland cragganmore dalwhinnie single malt dimple glen elgin glenkinchie glen ord johnnie walker justerini & brooks j & b knockando lagavulin single malt oban old parr royal lochnagar singleton talisker vat 69 white horse windsor premier tennessee whiskey george dickel other archers don julio goldschl ger hennessy1 pimm s raw tea rumple minze sirop de picon wine brands dom p rignon1 justerini & brooks mo t & chandon1 veuve clicquot1 breweries and distilleries blair athol distillery caol ila distillery cardhu distillery cragganmore distillery dalwhinnie distillery desnoes & geddes east african breweries glen ord distillery glenkinchie distillery great northern brewery guinness brewery guinness ghana breweries guinness nigeria haig & haig industrias pampero knockando distillery lagavulin distillery north british distillery2 oban distillery old bushmills distillery talisker distillery other diageo hotline poll diageo staff association gleneagles hotel grand metropolitan guinness brewmasters guinness storehouse johnnie walker championship at gleneagles johnnie walker classic united distillers 1produced by mo t hennessy a joint venture between diageo 34 % and lvmh mo t hennessy louis vuitton s.a. 66 % 2owned by lothian distillers a joint venture between diageo 50 % and the edrington group 50 % category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title desnoes % 26 geddes & oldid 736250091 categories diageocompanies of jamaicabeer in the caribbeanhidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aispatois edit links this page was last modified on 26 august 2016 at 06 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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