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 5
December 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') that the Trustee sold 1,477 of the
Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ('Ordinary Shares') in respect of
participants leaving the Plan and transferred 31,776 Ordinary Shares to
participants leaving the Plan. The Ordinary Shares were sold on 28 November
2003 at a price per Ordinary Share of £7.261 and on 3 December 2003 at prices
of £7.3903 and £7.4203 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.

  

 Date of      No of Ordinary Shares Sold          Price  
Transaction                                       Per    
                                                  Share  
                                                         
28.11.03      68                                  £7.261 
                                                         
03.12.03      1,349                               £7.3903
                                                         
03.12.03      60                                  £7.4203

Date of       No of Ordinary Shares Transferred          
Transaction                                              
                                                         
                                                         
03.12.03      31,776                                     

 

The total holding of the Trust now amounts to 3,130,462 ordinary shares.

 

  

5 December 2003