Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
20 March 2002

20 March 2002


                                   Diageo PLC

                             Purchase of Own Shares

Diageo PLC announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 1,650,000 ordinary shares at an average price of
879.463p per share.


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