Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1418A
Diageo PLC
24 September 2015
 

TO:      Regulatory Information Service

 

RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

 

The notifications listed below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on the 24 September 2015 of the release of ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") and American Depositary Shares ("ADSs")* to the Director and persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMRs") on 22 September 2015 in respect of awards made under the Company's 2009 Discretionary Incentive Plan ("DIP") as set out below:

 

Name of Director

Grant Date

Number of ADS released

Date of release

Number of ADS sold#

Balance of ADS retained and beneficially owned

I Menezes

 

22 Sep 2011

16,489

22 September 2015

8,133

8,356

28 Dec 2011

4,820

22 September 2015

2,378

2,442

Name of PDMR

Grant Date

Number of Ordinary Shares released

Date of release

Number of Ordinary Shares sold#

Balance of Ordinary Shares retained and beneficially owned

N Blazquez

22 Sep 2011

10,805

22 September 2015

5,092

5,713

J O'Keeffe

22 Sep 2011

8,154

22 September 2015

4,251

3,903

Name of PDMR

Grant Date

Number of ADS released

Date of release

Number of ADS sold#

Balance of ADS retained and beneficially owned

B Franz

22 Sep 2011

3,798

22 September 2015

1,864

1,934

A Gavazzi

20 Sep 2010

1,700

22 September

715

985

 

The Ordinary Shares were sold at a price per share of £17.38 and the ADSs were sold a price per ADS of $106.31.

The transactions referred to above were conducted on the London Stock Exchange (for Ordinary Shares) and the New York Stock Exchange (for ADS).

As a result of the above transactions the interests of the directors and PDMRs in the Company's Ordinary Shares and ADS's (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

No. of Ordinary Shares

I Menezes

 792,710 (of which 699,712 are held as ADS)

Name of PDMR

No. of Ordinary Shares

N Blazquez

 85,341

A Gavazzi

 72,923 (of which 39,382 are held as ADS)

J O'Keeffe

 15,840

Name of PDMR

No. of ADS*

B Franz

 18,865

 

C Matthews

Assistant Company Secretary

24 September 2015

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

# Ordinary Shares/ADS have been sold to meet the requirement to reimburse the Company for PAYE tax and National Insurance/social security liabilities on awards released under the DIP.

 


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