Director Shareholding

TO:    Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                         
       PR Newswire                                                       
                                                                         
RE:    CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPHS 4 AND 13 OF                                 
                                                                         
       THE LISTING RULES                                                 
                                                                         

 

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces:

1.  That it received notification on 8 April 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 161 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ('Ordinary
Shares') in respect of participants leaving the Plan and transferred 1,087
Ordinary Shares back into the Plan. The Ordinary Shares were sold on 6 April
2005 at a price per Ordinary Share of £7.8306 by the Trustee.

The total holding of the Trust now amounts to 4,519,462 Ordinary Shares.

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

2. The following in respect of Dr Franz B. Humer, who was appointed a Director
of the Company on 1 April 2005:

In respect of Chapter 16 paragraph 4(a), apart from his current directorship of
Roche, notified on 30 March 2005, Dr Humer was formerly a director of Cadbury
Schweppes Public Limited Company and Genentech, Inc (in the USA) and is
currently a director of Chugai (in Japan);

In respect of Chapter 16 paragraph 4(b), there are no such details to disclose;
and

At the date of his appointment as a Director of the Company, Dr Humer had a
holding of 3,500 Ordinary Shares in the Company.

8 April 2005