Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Diageo PLC 24 March 2000 RE: CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13 CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 24 March 2000 for the purposes of Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985 that the trustee of the Diageo plc QUEST (the 'Trust') has transferred 15,673 of the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ('Ordinary Shares') to participants exercising options granted under the Company's UK Savings-Related Stock Option Scheme and the Grand Metropolitan Savings-Related Share Option Scheme (the 'Schemes'). The Ordinary Shares were transferred by Diageo QUEST Trustees Limited as trustee of the Trust. The Trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company and its subsidiaries which operates in conjunction with the Schemes and holds Ordinary Shares to satisfy existing options granted under the Schemes. 1. Executive directors who are potential beneficiaries of the Trust are: Sir Anthony Greener J M J Keenan D N Malamatinas J B McGrath N C Rose C A Storm P S Walsh 2. Transactions notified on 24 March 2000 in relation to the Trust. Date of Transaction No. of Ordinary Range of Option Shares Prices of Transferred Ordinary Shares 24.03.00 15,673 £3.14-£4.89 The total holding of the Trust now amounts to 6,499,669 Ordinary Shares.

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