Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
11 March 2002



11 March 2002

                                   Diageo plc


Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo plc announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 2,677,137 ordinary shares at an average price of
871.896 pence per share.



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