Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
13 June 2002

13 June 2002

                                   Diageo PLC


                             Purchase of Own Shares

Diageo PLC announces that on 12 June, it purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 3,000,000 ordinary shares at an average price of
860.73p per share.

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