Appointment of Director and Director Shareholdings

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                 
                                                                         
          PR Newswire                                                    
                                                                         
RE:       CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPHS 4 AND 13 OF                              
                                                                         
          THE LISTING RULES                                              

 

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces the following in respect of Jonathan
Symonds, who was appointed a Director of the Company on 1 May 2004:

 1. In respect of Chapter 16 paragraph 4(a), apart from his current
    directorship of a publicly quoted company notified on 19 February 2004,
    there are no other directorships of publicly quoted companies to disclose;
 2. In respect of Chapter 16 paragraph 4(b), there are no such details to
    disclose; and
 3. At the date of his appointment as a Director of the Company, Mr Symonds had
    a holding of 5,000 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ('Ordinary Shares')
    in the Company. These shares were purchased on 17 March 2004 at a price of
    728 pence per share.

 

The Company further announces that it received notification on 7 May 2004 for
the purposes of Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985 from Diageo Share
Ownership Trustees Limited (the 'Trustee'), as trustee of the Diageo Share
Incentive Plan (the 'Plan') that the Trustee sold 263 Ordinary Shares in
respect of participants leaving the Plan. The Ordinary Shares were sold on 30
April 2004 at a price per Ordinary Share of £7.6105 by the Trustee. The Plan is
an Inland Revenue approved plan operated by Diageo Group companies for the
benefit of employees of the Company and its subsidiaries.

  

Date of       No of Ordinary Shares Sold          Price Per    
Transaction                                       Share        
                                                               
30.04.04      263                                 £7.6105      

 

As a result of the above transactions, the total holding of the Trust now
amounts to 3,241,486 ordinary shares.

7 May 2004