Directors' Dealings

DIAGEO PLC
27 October 1999    


RE: CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13 OF
    CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS

Diageo  plc  (the  'Company') announces  that  today  the
directors  named below were granted options to  subscribe
for  ordinary  shares of 28 101/108p ('Ordinary  Shares')
each under the Company's Sharesave Scheme:

Name of Director No of     Dates Option
                 Shares    Exercisable Between
                           
Sir Anthony      1,188     1 December 2002 - 31 May
Greener                    2003
N C Rose         3,450     1 December 2004 - 31 May
                           2005
C A Storm        1,267     1 December 2002 - 31 May
                           2003

Each  option  has been granted at a price  of  £4.89  per
share.

In  addition to the above, these directors' interests  in
the  Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards
under   the   Company's  LTIPs  and  also  as   potential
beneficiaries of the Diageo Employee Benefit  Trust,  the
Diageo  plc  QUEST, the Grand Metropolitan No 2  Employee
Share  Trust and the Diageo plc Employee Incentive Trusts
1994 and 1996) are as follows:-

Name of Director  Ordinary
                  Shares
                  
Sir Anthony       202,049
Greener
N C Rose          12,973
C A Storm         60,456