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 20January 2015 that, in connection with the Company's US Employee Stock PurchasePlan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "USESPP"), the followingDirector and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs")purchased, on 20 January 2015, American Depositary Shares ("ADS")* asparticipants in the USESPP at a price of $108.32 per ADS as follows: Name of Director Number of ADSsI Menezes 30.77 Name of PDMR Number of ADSsA Gavazzi 184.64S Saller 184.64L Schwartz 184.64 As a result of these transactions, the interests of the Director and PDMRs inthe Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") andADS (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests aspotential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are asfollows: Name of Director No. of Ordinary SharesI Menezes 715,117 (of which 622,119 held as ADS) Name of PDMR No. of Ordinary SharesA Gavazzi 63,125 (of which 35,442 held as ADS) Name of PDMR No. of ADSS Saller 17,662L Schwartz 26,309 J FaheySenior Company Secretarial Assistant 22 January 2015 *1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares