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 today that the following directors and Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "Plan") had received ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") in lieu of the interim dividend paid on 6 April 2009 as follows: Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares Dr FB Humer 102 NC Rose 7,624 Name of PDMR G Williams* 37 The Ordinary Shares were purchased on 6 April 2009 (with a settlement date of 9 April 2009) at an average price of £8.017. As a result of the above transaction, these directors' and PDMR's interests in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's employee benefit trusts) have increased as follows: Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares Dr FB Humer 10,616 NC Rose 453,828 Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares G Williams 243,770 (of which 5,916 are held in the form of ADS**) * In respect of shares held by his son David Rhys Williams. 9 April 2009 **1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

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