Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7168C

Diageo PLC

19 October 2015

TO:

Regulatory Information Service

RE:

PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES

The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

1. It received notification on 16 October 2015 that the following Director and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's final dividend paid on 14 October 2015, as follows:

Name of Director	Number of ADSs
D Mahlan	61

Name of PDMR	Number of ADSs
B Franz	32
J Kennedy	7
S Saller	36
L Schwartz	91

The ADSs were purchased on 14 October 2015 at a price of $113.04 per ADS.

2. It received notification on 16 October 2015 that, Ho KwonPing, a director of the Company, received 80 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), as a participant in the Diageo dividend reinvestment plan, in respect of the final dividend paid on 8 October 2015. The Ordinary Shares were purchased on 8 October 2015 (with a settlement date of 12 October 2015) at a price of £18.22.

The transactions referred to above were conducted on the London Stock Exchange (for Ordinary Shares) and the New York Stock Exchange (for ADS).

As a result of the above transactions, the interests of the directors and PDMRs in the Company's Ordinary Shares and ADS (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased to:

Name of Director	Number of Ordinary Shares
Ho KwonPing	4,303
D Mahlan	307,091 (of which 137,872 are held as ADS)

Name of PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares
J Kennedy	58,237(of which 53,641 are held as ADS)


	Number of ADS
B Franz	18,897
S Saller	19,120
L Schwartz	30,627