Diageo plc : - Transaction in Own Shares

06/29/2012| 10:50am US/Eastern

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TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                     
                                                                            
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RE:      PARAGRAPH 12.6.4 OF THE LISTING RULES                              

Diageo plc - Transaction in Own Shares

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that today, it released from treasury 71,924 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), to satisfy grants made under employee share plans. The average price at which these Ordinary Shares were released from treasury was 1080.32 pence per share.

Following this release, the Company holds 248,472,277 Ordinary Shares as treasury shares and the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 2,505,643,708.

Paul Tunnacliffe

Company Secretary

29 June 2012

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