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 1 May2014 that Ivan Menezes, a director, had on 29 April 2014 transferred 24,627American Depository Shares in the Company ("ADSs")* held in a grantor retainedannuity trust, of which he is trustee and beneficiary to a joint account heldwith his spouse. As a result of the above transactions, 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) remain at 634,809 (ofwhich 541,811 are held as ADS). J NichollsDeputy Company Secretary 1 May 2014 *1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.