Holding in Company

Diageo PLC
19 February 2001


                      RE:    CHAPTER 9 PARAGRAPH 11 OF  
                             CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS      
 

Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification on 16
February 2001 for the purposes of Sections 198 to 208 of the Companies Act
1985 that there has been a change in the registration details relating to
Prudential plc's 3.00% interest in the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108
pence ('Ordinary Shares'), notified on 27 December 2000.  The revised list of
registered holders and the number of Ordinary Shares held by each of them is
as follows:


M&G (Lombard St) Noms FPE                 122,883
MAGIM HSBC GIS NOM (UK) SALI              329,000
PACS Global Equities (UK)                   5,420
PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM (UK) PAC AC        93,439,947
PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM (UK) PHL AC           632,284
PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM (UK) PPL AC         4,534,753
Prudential World Value Fund                51,690
RBSTB Nominees Limited                     31,745
Roy Nominees 578079                       180,000
Roy Noms Ltd 578052                       245,000
Roy Noms Ltd 578060                       225,000
Roy Noms Ltd 578141                       443,605
Roy Noms Ltd 578192                     2,029,000

Total:                                102,270,327