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
it received notification on 15 October 2013 that the following Directors and
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs"), as participants in
the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee Stock
Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American
Depository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's final dividend paid on 8
October 2013, as follows:

Name of Director      Number of ADSs                                  
                                                                      
D Mahlan              48                                              
I Menezes             60                                              
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
Name of PDMR          Number of ADSs                                  
                                                                      
G Ghostine            13                                              
J Kennedy             6                                               
S Saller              22                                              
L Schwartz            65                                              
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      

The ADSs were purchased on 8 October 2013 at a price of $121.53 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") and ADS
(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                 
D Mahlan         227,839 (of which 136,659 are held as ADS)
I Menezes        599,802 (of which 506,804 are held as ADS)
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
Name of PDMR     Number of Ordinary Shares                 
G Ghostine       164,800 (of which 33,261 are held as ADS) 
J Kennedy        38,710 (of which 34,114 are held as ADS)  
                                                           
                                                           
                 Number of ADS                             
S Saller         10,684                                    
L Schwartz       33,202                                    
                                                           

 

P Tunnacliffe
Company Secretary
16 October 2013
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.