Director Shareholding and various

TO:     Regulatory Information Service                                   
                                                                         
        PR Newswire                                                      
                                                                         
RE:     CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13 AND                                      
                                                                         
        CHAPTER 23 PARAGRAPH 23.23 OF                                    
                                                                         
        THE LISTING RULES                                                
                                                                         

 

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that:

1.  it received notification on 11 March 2005 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 1,986 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company
('Ordinary Shares') in respect of participants leaving the Plan and transferred
19,672 Ordinary Shares to participants leaving the Plan. The Ordinary Shares
were sold between 3 March 2005 and 10 March 2005 at prices per Ordinary Share
of between £7.351 and £7.456, by the Trustee.

Date of Transaction   No of Ordinary Shares Sold   Price Per Share 
                                                                   
03.03.05              8                            £7.3765         
                                                                   
04.03.05              1,232                        £7.351          
                                                                   
08.03.05              156                          £7.376          
                                                                   
09.03.05              414                          £7.3925         
                                                                   
10.03.05              176                          £7.456          
                                                                   

Date of Transaction   No of Ordinary Shares Transferred     
                                                            
                                                            
                                                            
04.03.05              19,672                                
                                                            

 

The total holding of the Trust now amounts to 4,539,212 Ordinary Shares.

Directors who are potential beneficiaries of the Plan are NC Rose and PS Walsh.

2.  In accordance with Chapter 23 Paragraph 23.23 of the Listing Rules, two
copies of the audited financial statements for Diageo Capital B.V.  for the
year ended 30 June 2004 have been lodged today with the UK Listing Authority
for publication through the Document Viewing Facility.

11 March 2005