SCOTTISH Trade Minister Ivan McKee has visited Diageo’s Leven packaging plant in Fife to present the company’s top global manufacturing award to the team there.
McKee and local MSP Jenny Gilruth toured the plant and handed over two trophies to mark Leven being named Diageo’s top performing manufacturing site in the last financial year.
Each year Diageo celebrates the performance of its production business globally through the Excellence in Supply Chain Awards, with a total of 154 production sites in 26 countries around the world – including packaging plants, distilleries, breweries, warehousing sites, cooperages and coppersmiths – competing for the top accolades.
Leven was named Packaging Plant of the Year and Site of the Year in recognition of performance across a range of measures including productivity and health and safety.
Presenting the award, McKee said: “Growing global exports is at the heart of the Scottish Government’s economic ambitions and I was delighted to learn more about the contribution Diageo’s Leven packaging plant is making to that goal.”
Gilruth said: “Diageo Leven is a major employer in my constituency and it is wonderful to see it being recognised at a global level for the excellent work the people here do.”
Diageo’s Leven operations director Gavin Brogan said: “It is a great source of pride for everyone at Leven to be named Diageo’s top supply chain site for the past year.”
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