Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service PR Newswire RE: 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 10 October 2014 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 director of the Company was allocated Ordinary Shares on 10October 2014 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the"Trustee"): Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares D Mahlan 10 (ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 October 2014 under the Plan, by theTrustee: Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares N Blazquez 10 S Moriarty 10 L Wood 11 The 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 £17.50. 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 10 October 2014 that Dr FB Humer, a director of the Company, had purchased 473 Ordinary Shares on 10 October 2014 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 £17.50. 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 Shares Dr FB Humer 55,953 D Mahlan 279,177 (of which 137,249 are held as ADS)* Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares N Blazquez 95,826 S Moriarty 41,706 L Wood 6,885 J FaheySenior Company Secretarial Assistant10 October 2014*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.