Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 7095I

Diageo PLC

01 September 2016

 

Please find below an announcement released to the LSE this afternoon in relation to Total Voting Rights.

TO:	Regulatory Information Service
RE:	Paragraph 5.6.1 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

Diageo plc - Voting Rights and Capital

In conformity with Paragraph 5.6.1 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, Diageo plc (the "Company") would like to notify the market of the following:

The Company's issued capital as at 31 August 2016 consisted of 2,754,414,152 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), with voting rights. 236,010,587 Ordinary Shares were held in Treasury, in respect of which, voting rights were not exercised.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company was 2,518,403,565 and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

1 September 2016

Jonathan Guttridge
Company Secretarial Assistant
Diageo plc

 

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