Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service PR Newswire RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules The notification 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 Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS") in respect of the Company's final dividend paid on 23 October 2009, as follows: Name of PDMR Number of ADSs* G Ghostine 18 I Menezes 91 R Millian 35 T Proctor 56 G Williams 25 The ADSs were purchased on 23 October 2009 at a price of $63.271 per ADS. As a result of the above transactions, the interests of PDMRs in the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") (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 PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares G Ghostine 40,038 (of which 32,780 are held in the form of ADS*) I Menezes 323,904 (of which 230,906 are held in the form of ADS*) G Williams 245,653 (of which 6,088 are held in the form of ADS*) Number of ADSs* R Millian 9,728 T Proctor 38,112 *1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares. P D Tunnacliffe Company Secretary 4 November 2009

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