Director/PDMR Shareholding

DIAGEO PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding

PR Newswire

London, May 9

The notifications listed below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of theDisclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 9 May2013 that Nick Blazquez, a person discharging managerial responsibility(`PDMR'), exercised options on 8 May 2013 over 65,126 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted under the Company'sSenior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP"). The options were granted on 17September 2009 at an exercise price of £9.52 per Ordinary Share.

Of the shares arising, Mr Blazquez sold 64,426 Ordinary Shares at a price perOrdinary Share of £19.81.

Separately, Mr Blazquez sold 1,250 Ordinary Shares held in his own name on 8May 2013 at a price per Ordinary Share of £19.80.

As a result of the above transactions, Mr Blazquez's interests in the Company'sOrdinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs andinterests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts)have increased to 72,425.

9 May 2013