Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1103B
Diageo PLC
02 October 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 2 October 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 Directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMRs") under the Company's 2008 Performance Share Plan ("PSP") on 1 October 2015 as set out below.  The awards were made on 1 October 2012 and vested at a level of 33%. Also released were the Ordinary Shares and ADSs that were accrued in respect of notional dividends under the PSP during the period. The balance of each award has lapsed.

 

Name of Director

Number of Ordinary Shares released

Number of Ordinary Shares in respect of notional dividend

Number of Ordinary Shares sold#

Balance of Ordinary Shares retained and beneficially owned

D Mahlan

44,884

4,380

23,207

26,057

Name of Director

Number of ADS released

Number of ADS in respect of notional dividend

Number of ADS shares sold#

Balance of ADS shares retained and beneficially owned

I Menezes

 

18,309

1,853

10,566

9,596

 

Name of PDMR

Number of Ordinary Shares released

Number of Ordinary Shares in respect of notional dividend

Number of Ordinary Shares sold#

Balance of Ordinary Shares retained and beneficially owned

N Blazquez

21,039

2,053

10,881

12,211

D Cutter

2,588

252

1,347

1,493

S Moriarty

14,851

1,449

7,681

8,619

Name of PDMR

Number of ADS released

Number of ADS in respect of notional dividend

Number of ADS shares sold#

Balance of ADS shares retained and beneficially owned

S Saller

849

85

459

475

L Schwartz

6,022

609

2,458

4,173

 

The Ordinary Shares were sold at a price per share of £17.80 and the ADSs were sold a price 
per ADS of $107.34.

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

D Mahlan

306,834 (of which 137,626 held as ADS)

Name of Director

No. of ADS

I Menezes

831,094 (of which 738,096 held as ADS)

Name of PDMR

No. of Ordinary Shares

N Blazquez

97,552

D Cutter

16,788

S Moriarty

51,183

Name of PDMR

No. of ADS

S Saller

19,084

L Schwartz

30,536

 

V Cooper        

Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

2 October 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 PSP.

 


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