Diageo PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding

 
TIDMDGE 
 
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 it received notification on 27 
January 2015 that the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities 
("PDMR") were granted an estimated number of options to subscribe for American 
Depository Shares ("ADS")* under the US Employee Stock Purchase Plan ("USESPP") 
as follows: 
 
Name of PDMR     Estimated No   Grant price per Exercisable 
                 of ADS granted ADS 
 
S Saller         195            $102.09         31 December 2015 
 
L Schwartz       195            $102.09         31 December 2015 
 
The USESPP is a scheme operated in the USA and is similar to a UK 
tax-qualifying Save As You Earn share option scheme under which participation 
is extended on similar terms to all or most employees of the participating 
companies. The enrolment date was 4 September 2014 and the initial deductions 
were taken from January 2015 salaries. This is not a stock market transaction. 
 
As a result of the above transactions, interests of 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) remain unchanged. 
 
J Fahey 
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant 
28 January 2015 
 
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares. 
 
 
 
 
 
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