Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 9836L

Diageo PLC

02 January 2019

 

Diageo plc

LEI: 213800ZVIELEA55JMJ32

Total Voting Rights and Capital

In conformity with Paragraph 5.6.1R of the Disclosure Guidelines and Transparency Rules and Article 15 of the Transparency Directive, Diageo plc (the "Company") would like to notify the market of the following:

The Company's issued capital as at 31 December 2018 consisted of 2,649,169,201 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), with voting rights.  230,901,659 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 2,418,267,542 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 Guidelines and Transparency Rules.

James Edmunds

Deputy Company Secretary

2 January 2019

 

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