RNS Number : 0663N

Diageo PLC

20 October 2016

Diageo plc (the "Company")
Transaction notification

1.

Details of Restricted Person / person closely associated with them ("PCA")

a)

Name

B FRANZ

b)

Position / status

MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

c)

Initial notification / amendment

INITIAL NOTIFICATION

2.

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument

AMERICAN DEPOSITARY SHARES

b)

Nature of the transaction

The person discharging managerial responsibilities named above, as a participant in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also Known as the US Sharesave Plan), received American Depositary Shares ("ADS") on 17 October 2016, in respect of the Company's final dividend.

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
$108.66	33

d)

Aggregated information 

N/A

e)

Date of the transaction

17 OCTOBER 2016

f)

Place of the transaction

New York Stock Exchange

537577033

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