Guinness led to a scandal and criminal trial concerning the artificial inflation of the Guinness share price during the takeover bid engineered by the chairman, Ernest Saunders. A subsequent £5.2 million success fee paid to an American lawyer and Guinness director, Tom Ward, was the subject of the case "Guinness plc v Saunders", in which the House of Lords declared that the payment had been invalid. In the 1980s, as the IRA's bombing campaign spread to London and the rest of Britain, Guinness considered scrapping the harp as its logo. The company merged with Grand Metropolitan in 1997 to form Diageo.
Manoj Guinness hometown Karimugal, Kerala. Guinness started his career as a mimicry artist in Cochin Century. He later shifted to Cochin Guiness, a popular mimicry troupe. He appeared in numerous stage shows worldwide. A few years later, Guinness started his own troupe named ‘Navodaya’. He appeared in ‘Cinemala’ imitating Kerala politician V S Acthuthanadan. He was the writer of the TV shows "Cinemala" and "Onathinidakk Poottukachavadom". He also performed as the lead in the TV show Badai Bunglow. Manoj Guinness Manoj Guinness, is an Indian film actor and comedy mimicry artist in Malayalam films. Manoj hails from Ernakulam, Kerala. Manoj did his