TO: Regulatory Information Service
PR Newswire
RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF
THE DISCLOSURE RULES
The notification listed below is in respect of a single transaction of which
notification was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules and
Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985.
Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that:
1. Mr PS Walsh, a director, notified the Company on 5 October 2005 that:
a. on 5 October 2005, he exercised options over 50,000 Ordinary Shares of 28
101/108 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') granted on 20 December
1999 at a price per share of £5.18 under the Company's Senior Executive Share
Option Plan; and
b. on 5 October 2005, he sold 48,000 Ordinary Shares at a price per share of £
8.39.
Mr Walsh will retain beneficial ownership of the balance of 2,000 Ordinary
Shares.
As a result of the above, Mr Walsh's interests in the Company's Ordinary Shares
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's employee benefit trusts) is 747,501.
2. It received notification on 6 October 2005 from Bailhache Labesse Trustees
Limited, as trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust ('the Employee Benefit
Trust') that they had transferred 50,000 Ordinary Shares to a beneficiary of
the Employee Benefit Trust following an exercise of options under the Company's
Senior Executive Share Option Plan on 5 October 2005.
As a result of this transaction the total holding of the Employee Benefit Trust
amounts to 7,312,748 Ordinary Shares.
Directors of the Company who are potential beneficiaries of the Employee
Benefit Trust are PS Walsh and NC Rose.
6 October 2005
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