Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 9971B

Diageo PLC

12 October 2015

 

TO:	Regulatory Information Service
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:

1.   It received notification on 12 October 2015 of the following allocations of ordinary shares of 28

 ¹⁰¹/₁₀₈ pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the Diageo Share Incentive
 
Plan (the "Plan"), namely:

(i) the following director of the Company was allocated Ordinary Shares on 12 October 2015  under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the "Trustee"):

Name of Director	Number of Ordinary Shares
D Mahlan	11

(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") were allocated Ordinary Shares on 12 October 2015 under the Plan, by the Trustee:

Name of PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez	11
D Cutter	10
S Moriarty	11

The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company ("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.

The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary Shares were awarded at a price per share of £18.20.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee. Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years after the award date.

2.   It received notification on 12 October 2015 that Dr FB Humer, a director of the Company, had purchased 455 Ordinary Shares on 12 October 2015 under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of £8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary Shares. Dr Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he remains a director of the Company.

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £18.20.

3.   It received notification on 12 October 2015 that the following director and PDMRs, as participants in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "Plan") received Ordinary Shares in respect of the final dividend paid on 8 October 2015, as follows:

Name of Director	Number of Ordinary Shares
Dr FB Humer	1,094
Name of PDMR
N Blazquez	406
D Cutter	9
S Fischer	19
S Moriarty	782

The Ordinary Shares were purchased on 8 October 2015 (with a settlement date of 12 October 2015) at a price of £18.22.

The Ordinary Shares referred to in items 1, 2 and 3 above were purchased on the London Stock Exchange.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares ("ADS")* (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	Number of Ordinary Shares
Dr FB Humer	63,019
D Mahlan	306,845 (of which 137,626 are held as ADS)*
Name of PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez	97,969
D Cutter	16,759
S Fischer	17,328
S Moriarty	51,976

V Cooper        

Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

12 October 2015

* 1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

 

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