Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
27 March 2002

27 March 2002

                                   Diageo PLC

                             Purchase of Own Shares

Diageo PLC announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 100,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 882p
per share.

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