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 received under Paragraph 3.1.2
of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification
on 24 February 2015 of the following exercises of options. These were not
stock market transactions:

1. Deirdre Mahlan, a director of the Company, received ordinary shares of 28
101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 24 February 2015 upon the
exercise of options as detailed below:

Grant Date      Option      Number of       Shareplan
                Price       Ordinary Shares
 
1 December 2011 £9.60       937             Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2010
 
                                            ("UK SAYE")

2. Leanne Wood, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"),
received Ordinary Shares on 24 February 2015 upon the exercise of options as
detailed below:

Grant Date      Option      Number of       Shareplan
                Price       Ordinary Shares
 
1 December 2011 £9.60       375             UK SAYE
 
As a result of these transactions, interests of the director and PDMR in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares ("ADS")* (excluding
options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential
beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased as
follows:

Name of Director     Number of Ordinary Shares

D Mahlan             280,387 (of which 137,481 are held
                     as ADS)*


Name of PDMR         Number of Ordinary Shares

L Wood               6,951
 
J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
24 February 2014
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.