Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                      
                                                                             
         PR Newswire                                                         
                                                                             
RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules            

The notification listed below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 13 March
2008, that Mr Ivan Menezes, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities,
had on 10 March 2008, transferred 39,424 American Depositary Shares in the
Company ("ADSs") held in his own name, to a grantor retained annuity trust
("GRAT"). Mr Menezes is the grantor and sole trustee of the GRAT, and his two
children are the beneficiaries.

Mr Menezes' interests in the Company's Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence
("Ordinary Shares") (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and
interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts)
remains at 294,691 Ordinary Shares (of which 201,693 are held in the form of
ADS).

1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

14 March 2008