Director Shareholding

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

 

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 30 April
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 the Trustee sold 169 ordinary shares of
28 101/108 pence in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') in respect of participants
leaving the Plan. The Ordinary Shares were sold on 27 April 2004 at a price per
Ordinary Share of £7.675 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.

As a result of the above transactions, the total holding of the Trust now
amounts to 3,241,749 ordinary shares.

30 April 2004