Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO: Regulatory Information Service PR NewswireRE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules The notifications listed below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notificationon 24 February 2015 of the following exercises of options. These were notstock market transactions: 1. Deirdre Mahlan, a director of the Company, received ordinary shares of 28101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 24 February 2015 upon theexercise of options as detailed below: Grant Date Option Number of Shareplan Price Ordinary Shares 1 December 2011 £9.60 937 Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2010 ("UK SAYE") 2. Leanne Wood, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"),received Ordinary Shares on 24 February 2015 upon the exercise of options asdetailed below: Grant Date Option Number of Shareplan Price Ordinary Shares 1 December 2011 £9.60 375 UK SAYE As a result of these transactions, interests of the director and PDMR 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) have increased asfollows: Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares D Mahlan 280,387 (of which 137,481 are held as ADS)* Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares L Wood 6,951 J FaheySenior Company Secretarial Assistant24 February 2014*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.