DIAGEO PLC: Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service

                                                                           
         PR Newswire                                                       

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notification listed below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 14 February 2013 that Jim Grover, a person discharging managerial responsibilities, had on 14 February 2013 transferred 31,793 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") held in his own name to his spouse Mrs R Grover.

As a result of the above transaction, the interests of Mr Grover in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) remain at 186,994.

J Nicholls Deputy Company Secretary

14 February 2013

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