Director Shareholding

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                 
                                                                         
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RE:       CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13 OF                                     
                                                                         
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Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 26 March
2004 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 on 8 March 2004 the Trustee transferred
768 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') to
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.

 The total holding of the Trust now amounts to 3,221,394 ordinary shares.

 

26 March 2004