Director Shareholding

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

 

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 17
October 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 Share Incentive Plan (the 'Plan') (formerly named the Diageo 2001 All
Employee Share Ownership Plan) that the Trustee sold 93 of the Company's
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in respect of participants leaving the
Plan. The Ordinary Shares were sold on 13 October 2003 at a price per Ordinary
Share of £6.5415 by the Trustee. The Plan is an Inland Revenue approved plan
operated by Diageo Group companies for the benefit of employees of the Company
and its subsidiaries.

 

The total holding of the Trust now amounts to 3,256,471 ordinary shares.

 

 

 

17 October 2003