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 23 April2015 that Ivan Menezes, a director of the Company, had on 22 April 2015transferred 23,698 American Depository Shares in the Company ("ADSs")* held ina grantor retained annuity trust, of which he is trustee and beneficiary, to ajoint account held with his spouse. This was not a stock exchange transaction. As a result of the above transaction, the interests of Mr Menezes in ordinaryshares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") (excludingoptions, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a potentialbeneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are unchanged. J Fahey Senior Company Secretarial Assistant 23 April 2015 *1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.