Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6720V

Diageo PLC

19 April 2016

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 18 April 2016 of the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's interim dividend paid on 12 April 2016, as follows:

Name of PDMR	Number of ADSs
B Franz	22
J Kennedy	4
D Mahlan	38
S Saller	25

The ADSs were purchased on 12 April 2016 at a price of $109.14 per ADS.

2. It received notification on 18 April 2016 that the following director, as a participant in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "Plan") received Ordinary Shares in respect of the interim dividend paid on 7 April 2016, as follows:

Name of Director	Number of Ordinary Shares
Ho KwonPing	50

The Ordinary Shares were purchased on 7 April 2016 (with a settlement date of 12 April 2016) at a price of £19.20.

The ADSs and Ordinary Shares referred to in items 1 and 2 above were purchased on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange.

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

Name of Director	Number of Ordinary Shares
Ho KwonPing	4,353
Name of PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares
J Kennedy	65,804 (of which 61,208 are held as ADS)
D Mahlan	307,839 (of which 138,610 are held as ADS)