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 12February 2013 that, in connection with the Company's US Employee Stock PurchasePlan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "USESPP"), the followingDirector and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs")received, on 8 February 2013, American Depositary Shares ("ADS")* that they hadpurchased as participants in the USESPP at a price of $65.37 per ADS asfollows:Name of Director Number of ADSsI Menezes 305.951Name of PDMR Number of ADSsR Millian 305.951T Proctor 305.951L Schwartz 305.951As a result of these transactions, the interests of the Director and PDMRs inthe Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") andADS (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests aspotential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are asfollows:Name of Director No. of Ordinary SharesI Menezes 520,480 (of which 427,482 held as ADS)Name of PDMR No. of ADSR Millian 21,113T Proctor 38,901L Schwartz 20,478J NichollsDeputy Company Secretary12 February 2013

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares