Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service PR Newswire RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE RULES The notifications listed below are each in respect of a single transaction of which notification was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules and, in respect of directors of Diageo plc only, Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985. 1. Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that on 16 February 2007 it received notification from the trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust (the "Employee Benefit Trust") as detailed below. The Employee Benefit Trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company and its subsidiaries and operates primarily in conjunction with the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan, now called the Total Shareholder Return Plan (the "Plan"), approved by shareholders on 11 August 1998. a) Appleby Trust (Jersey) Limited, as trustee of the Employee Benefit Trust ("the Trustee"), had, on 16 February 2007, released ordinary shares of 28 101/ 108 pence of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to participants under the Plan at a level of 72% as follows: Date of Transaction No. of Ordinary Shares 16.02.2007 584,335 including Ordinary Shares and American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") transferred to directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR"), receiving awards released under the Plan, as follows: Name of Director No. of Ordinary Shares NC Rose 76,795 PS Walsh 134,191 Name of PDMR No. of Ordinary Shares S Fletcher 36,215 J Grover 31,257 A Morgan 37,185 G Williams 32,442 No. of ADSs* R Malcolm 11,287 I Menezes 16,385 T Proctor 14,248 The awards were made on 20 February 2004. The balance of each award has lapsed. b) the Trustee had, on 16 February 2007, made the following sale of Ordinary Shares to meet the requirement to reimburse the Company for PAYE tax and National Insurance liabilities on awards released under the Plan: Date of Transaction No. Ordinary Shares Sold Sale Price of Ordinary Shares 16.2.2007 163,101 £10.3518 No. ADSs Sold Sale Price of ADSs 16.2.2007 15,345 $81.38 including Ordinary Shares and ADSs sold on behalf of directors and PDMRs, as follows: Name of Director No. Ordinary Shares Sold Sale Price of Ordinary Shares NC Rose 31,486 £10.3518 PS Walsh 55,019 £10.3518 Name of PDMR S Fletcher 14,849 £10.3518 J Grover 12,816 £10.3518 A Morgan 15,246 £10.3518 G Williams 13,302 £10.3518 No. ADSs Sold Sale Price of ADSs R Malcolm 3,538 $81.38 I Menezes 5,299 $81.38 T Proctor 5,368 $81.38 2. Mr PS Walsh notified the Company that on 16 February 2007 he sold 39,172 Ordinary Shares at a price per share of £10.35. Therefore he has retained 40,000 of the shares released to him under the Plan, as announced in 1. a) above. 3. The Company announces that it received a notification from the Trustee on 16 February 2007 that as a result of the transactions detailed above in 1, the total holding of the Employee Benefit Trust amounts to 5,413,657 Ordinary Shares. 4. As a result of the above release of awards and sales, the interests of directors and PDMRs in the Company's 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 Director Number of Ordinary Shares N C Rose 356,195 P S Walsh 616,011 Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares S Fletcher 132,781 J Grover 170,933 I Menezes 285,358** A Morgan 128,922 G Williams 208,312*** No. of ADSs R Malcolm 29,977 T Proctor 35,921 *1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares. (** of which 192,360 are held in the form of ADS.) (*** of which 5,559 are held in the form of ADS.) 19 February 2007

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