Drinks company Diageo has selected Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as its new IT partner.

TCS will provide infrastructure services, data centre facilities, servers and support services. TCS will also be tasked with delivering new and innovative services and technology.

TCS will provide IT services to Diageo’s brands including Johnnie Walker, Bushmills, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, and Guinness and to 36,000 staff located throughout 180 countries. The new contract replaces Diageo’s previous outsourced IT service delivered by CSC.

Diageo said that the deal with TCS would provide a: “"enhanced self-serve capability to deliver an improved end user experience".

Diageo CEO Ivan Menezes, said: "Working with TCS, I believe that we can make a significant step change in the way that IS supports our 36,000 employees around the world, giving them the freedom and agility to drive growth for Diageo in each of our markets.”