Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service PR NewswireRE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES

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

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

1. It received notification on 11 February 2013 of the following allocations

of ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary

Shares") under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely:

(i) the following directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 11February 2013 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the"Trustee"):Name of Director Number of Ordinary SharesD Mahlan 11PS Walsh 11(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")were allocated Ordinary Shares on 11 February 2013 under the Plan, by theTrustee:Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary SharesN Blazquez 11D Gosnell 11J Grover 11A Morgan 11S Moriarty 9G Williams 11I Wright 11The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf ofthe employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deductedfrom salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every twoSharepurchase Ordinary Shares.

The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch OrdinaryShares were awarded at a price per share of £18.88.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. SharematchOrdinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three yearsafter the award date.

2. It received notification on 11 February 2013 that Dr FB Humer, a director

of the Company, had purchased 438 Ordinary Shares on 11 February 2013 under

an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of

£8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase

Ordinary Shares. Dr Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he

remains a director of the Company.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £18.88.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in theCompany's Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares ("ADS")* (excludingoptions, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potentialbeneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows:Name of Director Number of Ordinary SharesDr FB Humer 44,846D Mahlan 132,188 (of which 131,583 are held as ADS)PS Walsh 729,614Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary SharesN Blazquez 73,956D Gosnell 109,655J Grover 186,994A Morgan 192,958S Moriarty 28,480G Williams 176,423 (of which 6,493 are held as ADS)I Wright 58,278J NichollsDeputy Company Secretary11 February 2013

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.