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 22October 2013 that Larry Schwartz, a person discharging managerialresponsibilities ("PDMR"), exercised options on 21 October 2013 over AmericanDepository Shares in the Company ("ADS")* granted under the Company's SeniorExecutive Share Option Plan as set out below: No. of ADSs Date of grant Price per ADS 16,917 18 September 2007 $84.53 Mr Schwartz subsequently sold 16,747 ADSs on 21 October 2013 at a price per ADSof $128.87 and retained 170 ADSs. As a result of the above transactions, MrSchwartz's interests in the Company's ADSs (excluding options, awards under theCompany's LTIPs and interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company'sEmployee Benefit Trusts) have increased to 33,372. J Nicholls Deputy Company Secretary 23 October 2013 *1 ADS is equal to 4 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company