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 theDisclosure and Transparency Rules. Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 19 March2015 that Leanne Wood, a person discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR"),sold, on 19 March 2015, 1,000 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in theCompany ("Ordinary Shares") at a price per Ordinary Share of £19.67. TheOrdinary Shares were sold on the London Stock Exchange. As a result of the above transaction, the interests of Ms Wood in the OrdinaryShares of the Company (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs andinterests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts)are now 5,960. Jane Fahey Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

19 March 2015