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 3 February 2014 that, in connection with the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "USESPP"), the following Director and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs") received, on 31 January 2014, American Depositary Shares ("ADS")* that they had purchased as participants in the USESPP at a price of $95.81 per ADS as follows: Name of Director Number of ADSs I Menezes 208.75 Name of PDMR Number of ADSs S Saller 208.75 L Schwartz 208.75 As a result of these transactions, the interests of the Director and PDMRs in the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("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 No. of Ordinary Shares I Menezes 634,637 (of which 541,639 held as ADS) Name of PDMR No. of ADS S Saller 11,893 L Schwartz 33,581 J Nicholls Deputy Company Secretary 4 February 2014 *1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares

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