DIAGEO PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding

PR Newswire

TO: Regulatory Information ServicePR NewswireRE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency RulesThe 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 20January 2015 that, in connection with the Company's US Employee Stock PurchasePlan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "USESPP"), the followingDirector and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs")purchased, on 20 January 2015, American Depositary Shares ("ADS")* asparticipants in the USESPP at a price of $108.32 per ADS as follows:Name of Director       Number of ADSsI Menezes              30.77Name of PDMR           Number of ADSsA Gavazzi              184.64S Saller               184.64L Schwartz             184.64As a result of these transactions, the interests of the Director and PDMRs inthe Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") andADS (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests aspotential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are asfollows:Name of Director  No. of Ordinary SharesI Menezes         715,117 (of which 622,119                  held as ADS)Name of PDMR      No. of Ordinary SharesA Gavazzi         63,125 (of which 35,442 held                  as ADS)Name of PDMR      No. of ADSS Saller          17,662L Schwartz        26,309J FaheySenior Company Secretarial Assistant22 January 2015*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares