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 thatit received notification on 15 October 2013 that the following Directors andPersons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs"), as participants inthe dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee StockPurchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received AmericanDepository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's final dividend paid on 8October 2013, as follows: Name of Director Number of ADSs D Mahlan 48I Menezes 60 Name of PDMR Number of ADSs G Ghostine 13J Kennedy 6S Saller 22L Schwartz 65 The ADSs were purchased on 8 October 2013 at a price of $121.53 per ADS. As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in theCompany's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") and ADS(excluding options, 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 SharesD Mahlan 227,839 (of which 136,659 are held as ADS)I Menezes 599,802 (of which 506,804 are held as ADS) Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary SharesG Ghostine 164,800 (of which 33,261 are held as ADS)J Kennedy 38,710 (of which 34,114 are held as ADS) Number of ADSS Saller 10,684L Schwartz 33,202 P TunnacliffeCompany Secretary16 October 2013*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.