DIAGEO PLC: Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

                                                                               
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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:

1. It received notification on 10 December 2012 of the following allocations

    of ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary
    Shares") under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely:

(i) the following directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2012 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the "Trustee"):

Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares

D Mahlan 9

PS Walsh 11

(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2012 under the Plan, by the Trustee:

Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares

N Blazquez 9

D Gosnell 11

J Grover 11

A Morgan 11

G Williams 11

I Wright 11

The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company ("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.

The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary Shares were awarded at a price per share of £18.65.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee. Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years after the award date.

2. It received notification on 10 December 2012 that Dr FB Humer, a director

    of the Company, had purchased 441 Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2012 under
    an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of
    £8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase
    Ordinary Shares. Dr Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he
    remains a director of the Company.
    The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £18.65.

 3. It received notification on 10 December 2012 that the following PDMR had
    today received Ordinary Shares upon the exercise of options under the
    Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2007, as follows:
    Name of PDMR        Grant Date           Option Price   No. of Ordinary Shares 

NB Blazquez 11 October 2007 £8.41 399

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs 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) are as follows:

Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares

Dr FB Humer 43,946

D Mahlan 132,167 (of which 131,583 are held as

ADS) PS Walsh

729,593

Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares

N Blazquez 73,395

D Gosnell 109,634

J Grover 186,973

A Morgan 192,937

G Williams 176,402 (of which 6,493 are held as ADS)

I Wright 58,257

P Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

10 December 2012

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

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