Diageo plc : Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director/PDMR Shareholding 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 10 January 2012 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 directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 January 2012 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the 'Trustee'): Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares PS Walsh 13 D Mahlan 13 (ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ('PDMR') were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 January 2012 under the Plan, by the Trustee: Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares N Blazquez 13 D Gosnell 13 J Grover 13 A Morgan 13 G Williams 13 I Wright 13 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 £14.23. 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 10 January 2012 from Dr FB Humer, a director of the Company, that he had purchased 582 Ordinary Shares on 10 January 2012 under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of £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 £14.23. 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 37,468 PS Walsh 691,519 D Mahlan 94,690 (of which 94,407 are held as ADS) Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares N Blazquez 55,761 D Gosnell 79,735 J Grover 154,879 A Morgan 150,767 G Williams 198,829 (of which 6,376 are held as ADS) I Wright 32,293 J Nicholls Deputy Company Secretary 10 January 2012 *1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares. END