Director Shareholding

Diageo PLC
02 August 2002




TO:          Regulatory Information Service

             RNS, The London Stock Exchange
RE:          CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13 OF

             CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS



Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 2 August
2002 for the purposes of Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985:

1) that the trustee of the Diageo plc QUEST (the 'Trust') has transferred 496 of
the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ('Ordinary Shares') to
participants exercising options granted under the Company's UK Savings-Related
Stock Option Scheme and the Grand Metropolitan Savings-Related Share Option
Scheme (the 'Schemes'). The Ordinary Shares were transferred by Diageo QUEST
Trustees Limited as trustee of the Trust. The Trust is a discretionary trust for
the benefit of employees of the Company and its subsidiaries which operates in
conjunction with the Schemes and holds Ordinary Shares to satisfy existing
options granted under the Schemes.

    1.                Executive directors who are potential beneficiaries of the Trust are:


                      N C Rose

                      P S Walsh


    2.                Transactions notified on 2 August 2002 in relation to the Trust.


            Date of Transaction                 No. of Ordinary Shares                Range of Option Prices of
                                                Transferred                           Ordinary Shares

                                                     496
            02.08.02                                                                  £4.56-£4.89



    The total holding of the Trust now amounts to 2,069,644 Ordinary Shares.

 2) that the trustee of the Diageo 2001 All Employee Share Ownership Plan (the
'Plan') has transferred or sold 202 Ordinary Shares to participants leaving the
Plan. The Ordinary Shares were transferred by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees
Limited, which holds Ordinary Shares as trustee of the Plan. The Plan is an
Inland Revenue approved plan operated by Diageo Group companies for the benefit
of employees of the Company and its subsidiaries.

    1.                Executive directors who are potential beneficiaries of the Plan are:


                      N C Rose

                      P S Walsh


    2.                Transactions notified on 2 August 2002 in relation to the Plan.


            Date of Transaction                 No. of Ordinary Shares
                                                Transferred/Sold

                                                     202
            02.08.02



    The total holding of the Plan now amounts to 238,187 Ordinary Shares.







2 August 2002




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