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 2014 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
January 2014 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):
Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares
D Mahlan 9
(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 January 2014 under the Plan, by the
Trustee:
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 9
D Gosnell 9
A Morgan 9
S Moriarty 9
L Wood 10
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 £19.47.
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 2014 that Dr FB Humer, a director of
the Company, had purchased 425 Ordinary Shares on 10 January 2014 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 £19.47.
3. It received notification on 10 January 2014 that the following Director &
PDMRs were granted an estimated number of options to subscribe for American
Depository Shares ("ADS")* under the US Employee Stock Purchase Plan
("USESPP") as follows:
4.
Name of Director
Estimated Grant
Grant Date No of ADS price per Exercisable
granted ADS
I Menezes 1 October 185 $108.32 31 December
2013 2014
Name of Grant Date Estimated Grant price Exercisable
No of ADS per ADS
PDMR granted
A Gavazzi 1 October 185 $108.32 31 December
2013 2014
S Saller 1 October 185 $108.32 31 December
2013 2014
L Schwartz 1 October 185 $108.32 31 December
2013 2014
As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and 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 50,467
D Mahlan 227,867 (of which 136,659 are held as
ADS)
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 71,814
D Gosnell 154,026
A Morgan 162,389
S Moriarty 35,698
L Wood 2,327
The interests of the Director and PDMR's that have been granted options to
subscribe for ADS's under the USESPP, remain unchanged.
J Nicholls
Deputy Company Secretary
10 January 2014
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
distributed by
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DIAGEO PLC 
