Holding(s) in Company

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                       
                                                                               
          PR Newswire                                                          
                                                                               
RE:       CHAPTER 9 PARAGRAPH 9.6.7                                            
                                                                               
          THE LISTING RULES                                                    

 

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 30 August
2006 for the purposes of Sections 198 to 208 of the Companies Act 1985, from
Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("Capital") that as at 25 August 2006 Capital
had, through its legal entities, decreased its interest in the Company's
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") to 138,191,478 Ordinary
Shares, representing 4.97 per cent. of the issued share capital. The issued
share capital of the Company as at 25 August 2006 was 2,782,456,380 excluding
268,526,258 Ordinary Shares held as Treasury Shares.

31 August 2006