Directors' Dealings

Diageo PLC
8 November 1999


RE: CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13 OF
    CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS

Diageo  plc (the 'Company') announces that on 4  November
1999  Mr  P  S  Walsh, a director, received 668  American
Depositary Shares ('ADS's') at a price of $31.77 per ADS,
having  exercised  an  option  under  the  Company's   US
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the 'USEPP').  One  ADS  is
equivalent  to  four ordinary shares of 28 101/108p  each
('Ordinary Shares').

As  a  result of this transaction, Mr Walsh's  beneficial
interests  in  the  Company's Ordinary Shares  (excluding
options,  awards  under  the  Company's  LTIPs  and  also
interests  as  a  potential  beneficiary  of  the  Diageo
Employee  Benefit Trust, the Diageo plc  QUEST,  and  the
Grand  Metropolitan  No  2  Employee  Share  Trust)  have
increased  to  98,552 Ordinary Shares,  including  48,064
Ordinary Shares held in the form of ADS's.

The Company further announces that an option held by Mr J
M J Keenan, a director, over 1,215 ADS's granted on 2
July 1997 at a price of $31.77 per ADS under the USEPP
lapsed before becoming exercisable.  The exercise date
would have been 1 September 1999.

As  a  result of this transaction, Mr Keenan's beneficial
interests  in  the  Company's Ordinary Shares  (excluding
options,  awards  under  the  Company's  LTIPs  and  also
interests  as  a  potential  beneficiary  of  the  Diageo
Employee  Benefit Trust, the Diageo plc  QUEST,  and  the
Grand  Metropolitan  No 2 Employee  Share  Trust)  remain
unchanged at 171,524 Ordinary Shares, held in the form of
ADS's.