Holding(s) in Company

TO:       Regulatory Information Service                                       
                                                                               
          PR Newswire                                                          
                                                                               
RE:       CHAPTER 9 PARAGRAPH 9.6.7                                            
                                                                               
          THE LISTING RULES                                                    

 

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 31
October 2005, for the purposes of Sections 198 to 208 of the Companies Act
1985, from Harris Associates L.P. ('Harris') that, due to a decrease in the
issued share capital of the Company, the percentage represented by their
beneficial interest in the Company's Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108p each
('Ordinary Shares') had increased to 3.002 per cent. of the issued share
capital. Harris have a beneficial interest in the equivalent of 87,854,439
Ordinary Shares (comprising Ordinary Shares and American Depositary Shares
('ADS')*). The issued share capital of the Company as at 31 October 2005 was
2,925,556,020, excluding 124,904,000 Ordinary Shares held as Treasury Shares.

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

1 November 2005