Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
19 March 2002

19 March 2002



                                   Diageo PLC


                             Purchase of Own Shares

Diageo PLC announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 5,550,000 ordinary shares at an average price of
881.654p per share.


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