Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
15 March 2002

15 March 2002

                                   Diageo PLC

                             Purchase of Own Shares

Diageo PLC announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 350,000 ordinary shares at an average price of
880.857p per share.


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