Bengaluru: Multinational liquor maker Diageo Plc on Tuesday opened its fifth enterprise operations centre in Bengaluru, which will provide finance and accounting services, business intelligence, analytics and data services for its global business.

Diageo’s global chief executive Ivan Menezes and Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah jointly inaugurated the centre at the Karle Town Special Economic Zone, which has been operating from a temporary facility at the same SEZ since October.

Speaking at the inauguration, Menezes said the Bengaluru centre could become one of Diageo’s biggest global centres. The company currently operates similar centres in Manila, Nairobi, Budapest and Bogota.

“Our business in India is stronger than ever and we see it as an important driver of growth. Karnataka is one of the most important markets for Diageo in India due to the increasingly progressive and transparent nature of the government’s policies," Menezes said, adding India is now its second-largest market globally.

When it opened the centre at an incubation facility at the Karle Town SEZ in October, Diageo—which owns United Spirits Ltd—had said it would soon move to a permanent facility. Diageo had said it planned to increase headcount at the centre from 100 at that point to 1,000 by the end of next year. On Tuesday, Menezes said the company will finish hiring over 1,000 people in the next couple of years, up from its current count of 300.

“I am fascinated that Diageo enterprise operations centre in Bengaluru will provide career opportunities for more than 1,000 professionals in the fields of finance and accounting, business intelligence analytics, technology and data services among others," said Siddaramaiah.

The centre will soon start offering new services including analytics, data and technology services as well as establish a robotics division, Diageo added.

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