DIAGEO PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding

PR Newswire
London, May 29

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 it received notification on 29 May that:

1. Nicola Mendelsohn, a director of the Company, had purchased 5,000 ordinary shares of 28 ¹⁰¹/₁₀₈ pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 28 May 2015 at a price per ordinary share of £18.39. The Ordinary Shares were purchased on the London Stock Exchange; and
2. Ho KwonPing, a director of the Company, had received 74 Ordinary Shares on 2 October 2014 and 46 Ordinary Shares on 7 April 2015, as a participant in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan. The Ordinary Shares were purchased on the London Stock Exchange.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of the above directors in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased as follows:

Name of Director	Number of Ordinary Shares
Ho KwonPing Nicola Mendelsohn	4,223 5,000

J Fahey

Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

29 May 2015