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 on 24 April
2013 that the following Directors and 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) (the "USESPP"), received American Depository
Shares ("ADS*") in lieu of the Company's interim dividend paid on 12 April
2013, as follows:

Name of Director          Number of ADSs                                     
                                                                             
D Mahlan                  28                                                 
                                                                             
I Menezes                 35                                                 
                                                                             
Name of PDMR              Number of ADSs                                     
                                                                             
G Ghostine                8                                                  
                                                                             
J Kennedy                 3                                                  
                                                                             
R Millian                 26                                                 
                                                                             
T Proctor                 3                                                  
                                                                             
L Schwartz                38                                                 
                                                                             
G Williams                11                                                 

The ADSs were purchased on 12 April 2013 at a price of $122.33 per ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and ADS (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 Director          Number of Ordinary Shares                    
                                                                       
D Mahlan                  132,315 (of which 131,691 held as ADS)       
                                                                       
I Menezes                 524,617 (of which 431,619 held as ADS)       
                                                                       
Name of PDMR              Number of Ordinary Shares                    
                                                                       
G Ghostine                106,332 (of which 33,207 held as ADS)        
                                                                       
J Kennedy                 23,186 (of which 18,590 held as ADS)         
                                                                       
G Williams                176,483 (of which 6,535 held as ADS)         
                                                                       
                          Number of ADS                                
                                                                       
R Millian                 21,139                                       
                                                                       
T Proctor                 28,904                                       
                                                                       
L Schwartz                20,853                                       

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

25 April 2013