Directors' Dealings

Diageo PLC
20 December 1999

RE:    CHAPTER 16 PARAGRAPH 13 OF
       CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS

Diageo  plc  (the  'Company') announces  that  today  the
directors named below were granted the following  options
over  the  Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108  pence
('Ordinary   Shares')  and  American  Depositary   Shares
('ADSs')   under  the  Company's Senior  Executive  Share
Option  Plan.   One  ADS is equivalent to  four  Ordinary
Shares.

Name of Director   No.  of   Ordinary  No. of ADSs
                   Shares
                                       
N C Rose           136,548             
C A Storm          76,426              
P S Walsh          470,559             
J M J Keenan                           100,060
D N Malamatinas                        85,442

Each   option   (granted   for  nil   consideration)   is
exercisable  between  20 December 2002  and  20  December
2009, subject to satisfaction of performance criteria.

In  addition to the above, these directors' interests  in
the  Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards
under the Company's LTIPs and also interests as potential
beneficiaries  of  the  Diageo  plc  QUEST,  Diageo   plc
Employee  Incentive Trust 1994, the Diageo  plc  Employee
Incentive   Trust  1996,  the  Grand  Metropolitan   No.2
Employee  Share Trust, the Diageo Employee Benefit  Trust
and the Pillsbury 401(K) Savings Plan) are as follows:

Name of Director   No.  of   Ordinary
                   Shares
                   
N C Rose           13,145
C A Storm          68,494
P S Walsh          103,968
J M J Keenan       171,524
D N Malamatinas    3,361