Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
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RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules          

The notifications listed below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 11
September 2013 that John Kennedy, a person discharging managerial
responsibilities ("PDMR"), exercised options on 11 September 2013 over American
Depositary Shares in the Company ("ADS")* under the Company's Diageo Share
Option Plan as set out below:

No. of ADS           Date of grant        Price per ADS     
                                                            
5,888                18 September 2007    $84.53            
                                                            
4,572                16 September 2008    $74.16            

Of the shares arising, Mr Kennedy sold 10,197 at a price per ADS of $124.84. Mr
Kennedy retains the balance of 263 ADS.

As a result of the above transactions, Mr Kennedy's interests in the ordinary
shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") and ADS
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential
beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased to
24,238 (of which 19,642 are held as ADSs).



John Nicholls
Deputy Company Secretary

12 September 2013

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares