Director Shareholding

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                 
                                                                         
          PR Newswire                                                    
                                                                         
RE:       CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13 OF                                     
                                                                         
          THE LISTING RULES                                              

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces:

1) that it received notification on 18 July 2003 for the purposes of Section
329 of the Companies Act 1985 that the trustee of the Diageo plc QUEST (the
'Trust') has transferred 742 of the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108
pence ('Ordinary Shares') to participants exercising options granted under the
Company's UK Savings-Related Stock Option Scheme and the Grand Metropolitan
Savings-Related Share Option Scheme (the 'Schemes'). The Ordinary Shares were
transferred by Diageo QUEST Trustees Limited as trustee of the Trust. The Trust
is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company and its
subsidiaries which operates in conjunction with the Schemes and holds Ordinary
Shares to satisfy existing options granted under the Schemes.

1.           Executive directors who are potential beneficiaries of the   
             Trust are:                                                   
                                                                          
             N C Rose                                                     
                                                                          
             P S Walsh                                                    
                                                                          
2.           Transactions notified on 18 July 2003 in relation to the     
             Trust.                                                       
                                                                          
Date of Transaction      No. of Ordinary Shares    Range of Option Prices 
                         Transferred               of Ordinary Shares     
                                                                          
18.07.03                           742             £4.645                 

The total holding of the Trust now amounts to 48,710 Ordinary Shares.

 2) that it received notification on 18 July 2003 for the purposes of Section
329 of the Companies Act 1985 from Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
'Trustee'), as trustee of the Diageo 2001 All Employee Share Ownership Plan
(the 'Plan') that 281 Ordinary Shares were transferred back to the Trustee
having been transferred out in error on 17 June 2003 in respect of participants
leaving the Plan. The Plan is an Inland Revenue approved plan operated by
Diageo Group companies for the benefit of employees of the Company and its
subsidiaries.

   Date of    No of Ordinary Shares Transferred          
Transaction                                              
                                                         
15.07.03      281                                        

 The total holding of the Trust now amounts to 2,144,385 ordinary shares.

 

18 July 2003