TIDMDGE 
 
TO:       Regulatory Information Service 
 
          PR Newswire 
 
RE:       PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES 
 
The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the 
Disclosure and Transparency Rules. 
 
Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that: 
 
 1. It received notification on 11 May 2015 of the following allocations of 
    ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") 
    under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely: 
 
(i) the following director of the Company was allocated Ordinary Shares on 11 
May 2015  under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the 
"Trustee"): 
 
Name of Director             Number of Ordinary Shares 
 
D Mahlan                     11 
 
(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") 
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 11 May 2015 under the Plan, by the Trustee: 
 
Name of PDMR                Number of Ordinary Shares 
 
N Blazquez                  11 
 
D Cutter                    11 
 
S Moriarty                  11 
 
L Wood                      10 
 
The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of 
the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted 
from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company 
("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two 
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares. 
 
The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary 
Shares were awarded at a price per share of GBP17.92. 
 
The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee. 
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch 
Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years 
after the award date. 
 
 2. It received notification on 11 May 2015 that Dr FB Humer, a director of the 
    Company, had purchased 463 Ordinary Shares on 11 May 2015 under an 
    arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of GBP 
    8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary 
    Shares. Dr Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he remains 
    a director of the Company. 
 
The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of GBP17.92. 
 
The Ordinary Shares referred to in items 1 and 2 above were purchased on the 
London Stock Exchange. 
 
As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the 
Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares ("ADS")* (excluding 
options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential 
beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows: 
 
Name of Director            Number of Ordinary Shares 
 
Dr FB Humer                 59,656 
 
D Mahlan                    280,562 (of which 137,626 are held as 
                            ADS)* 
 
Name of PDMR                Number of Ordinary Shares 
 
N Blazquez                  79,413 
 
D Cutter                    12,978 
 
S Moriarty                  42,349 
 
L Wood                      5,981 
 
 
J Fahey 
 
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant 
 
11 May 2015 
 
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares. 
 
 
 
END 
 

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