Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7340Y

Diageo PLC

10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 2015  under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the "Trustee"):

Name of Director	Number of Ordinary Shares
D Mahlan	10

(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 September 2015 under the Plan, by the Trustee:

Name of PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez	10
D Cutter	12
S Moriarty	10
L Wood	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 £17.23.

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 10 September 2015 that Dr FB Humer, a director of the Company, had purchased 480 Ordinary Shares on 10 September 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 £17.23.

3.   it received notification on 10 September 2015 that the PDMR named below was granted options to subscribe for Ordinary Shares under the Company's UK Sharesave Plan 2010 on 10 September 2015:

Name of PDMR        No. of Ordinary Shares         Dates Option Exercisable between

N Blazquez                              212                        01 December 2020 to 31 May 2021

            Each option has been granted at a price of £14.10 per Ordinary Share.

The Ordinary Shares referred to in items 1 and 2 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	61,470
D Mahlan	280,777 (of which 137,626 are held as ADS)*
Name of PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez	79,628
D Cutter	12,118
S Moriarty	42,564
L Wood	4,742

C Matthews    

Assistant Company Secretary

10 September 2015

* 1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

 

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