Holding(s) in Company

TO:     Regulatory Information Service                                   
                                                                         
        PR Newswire                                                      
                                                                         
RE:     CHAPTER 9 PARAGRAPH 11 OF                                        
                                                                         
        THE LISTING RULES                                                
                                                                         

 

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 25
February 2005, for the purposes of Sections 198 to 208 of the Companies Act
1985, from Harris Associates L.P. that, following their purchase on 22 February
2005 of 104,000 of the Company's Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108p each ('Ordinary
Shares') and 5,470 of the Company's American Depositary Shares*, their
beneficial interest in the Company's issued share capital had increased to the
equivalent of 90,453,905 Ordinary Shares, representing 3.01 per cent. of the
issued share capital.  The issued share capital of the Company as at 28
February 2005 is 3,007,723,414, excluding 41,080,000 Ordinary Shares held as
Treasury Shares.

*1 American Depositary Share is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

28 February 2005