Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service PR Newswire RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that: 1. it received notification on 10 December 2008 of the following allocations of ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely: (i) the following directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2008 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the "Trustee"): Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares N C Rose 20 P S Walsh 20 (ii) the following "Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities" ("PDMR") were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2008 under the Plan, by the Trustee: Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares N Blazquez 20 S Fletcher 20 D Gosnell 20 J Grover 20 A Morgan 20 G Williams 20 I Wright 20 The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company ("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares. The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary Shares were awarded at a price per share of £9.50. The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee. Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years after the award date. 2. it received notification on 10 December 2008 from Dr F B Humer, a director of the Company, that he has purchased 837 Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2008 under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of £8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary Shares. Dr F B Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he remains a director of the Company. The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £9.50. 3. it received notification on 10 December 2008 from Mr H T Stitzer, a director of the Company, that he has purchased 104 Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2008 under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of £1,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary Shares. The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £9.50. 4. it received notification on 9 December 2008 from Mr W S Shanahan, a director, that he had sold 2,000 American Depositary Shares in the Company (`ADS') on 18 November 2008, at a price of $55.74 per ADS. 5. on 9 December 2008, it had announced that, Mr I Wright, a PDMR, had exercised options over 48,485 Ordinary Shares, before selling 42,230 of the resulting Ordinary Shares, and retaining ownership of the balance of 6,255 Ordinary Shares. Due to a clerical error in relation to this exercise of options, another 1,390 Ordinary Shares have today been sold on Mr Wright's behalf, at a price of £9.53 per Ordinary Share. As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows: Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares Dr F B Humer 7,738 N C Rose 446,138 H T Stitzer 5,993 P S Walsh 719,743 Name of Director Number of ADSs* W S Shanahan 5,289 Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares N Blazquez 42,558 S Fletcher 151,902 D Gosnell 59,356 J Grover 196,346 A Morgan 176,610 G Williams 243,667 (of which 5,916 are held in the form of ADS*) I Wright 30,977 P D Tunnacliffe Company Secretary 10 December 2008 *1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

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