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Diageo growth

Diageo Plc, the world's biggest liquor company, said its African sales climbed at a "healthy double-digit" pace in the last six months on marketing investment and partnerships with local brewers.

Marketing spending was about 100 million pounds ($185 million) over the past year and will rise in the coming 12 months, Nick Blazquez, managing director of Diageo Africa, said on Tuesday in an interview in London.