Diageo PLC — Remuneration Information 2016

May 10, 2016

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RNS Number : 8283X

Diageo PLC

10 May 2016

TO:	Regulatory Information Service
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 May 2016 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 10 May 2016 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the "Trustee"):

Name of Director	Number of Ordinary Shares
K Mikells	9

(ii)        the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 May 2016 under the Plan, by the Trustee:      

Name of PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez	10
D Cutter	11
S Moriarty	9

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 £19.07.

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 May 2016 that Dr FB Humer, a director of the Company, had purchased 435 Ordinary Shares on 10 May 2016 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 £19.07.

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 the 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	66,860
K Mikells	13,569 (of which 13,520 are held as ADS)*
Name of PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez	98,831
D Cutter	8,835
S Moriarty	52,639

A Syed

Company Secretarial Assistant

10 May 2016

* 1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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