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 25September 2013 that Larry Schwartz, a person discharging managerialresponsibilities ("PDMR"), exercised options on 24 September 2013 over AmericanDepository Shares in the Company ("ADS")* granted under the Company's SeniorExecutive Share Option Plan as set out below: No. of ADSs Date of grant Price per ADS 21,613 20 September 2010 $67.84 Mr Schwartz subsequently sold 21,396 ADSs on 24 September 2013 at a price perADS of $130.11. As a result of the above transactions, Mr Schwartz's interestsin the Company's ADSs (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs andinterests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts)have increased to 33,137. J Nicholls Deputy Company Secretary 25 September 2013 *1 ADS is equal to 4 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company