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 4 March
2010 that Ron Anderson, a person discharging managerial responsibilities
("PDMR"), exercised options on 4 March 2010 over 64,253 ordinary shares of 28
101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 20 September
2005 at a price per share of £8.15 under the Company's Senior Executive Share
Option Plan ("SESOP") and over 90,031 Ordinary Shares granted on 19 September
2006 at a price per share of £9.30 under the SESOP.

Mr Anderson subsequently sold 152,741 Ordinary Shares on 4 March 2010, at a
price per share of £10.72. Mr Anderson retains the balance of 1,543 Ordinary
Shares.

As a result of the above transactions the interests of Mr Anderson in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depositary Shares ("ADS") (excluding
options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a potential
beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are 81,742 (of which
9,584 are held as ADS*).

P D Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

5 March 2010

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.