Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8304M

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

24 September 2021

 

DIRECT LINE INSURANCE GROUP PLC

TRANSACTIONS IN OWN SHARES

Direct Line Insurance Group plc ("DLG") announces today that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 10 10/11 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Goldman Sachs International. Such purchase was effected pursuant to instructions issued by DLG on 3 August 2021, as announced on 4 August 2021:

Date of purchase	Number of shares purchased	Highest price paid: (pence)	Lowest price paid: (pence)	Volume  weighted average price paid per share (pence)	Venue
23 September 2021	1,000	296.10	290.30	293.30	LSE

DLG will cancel the purchased shares. 

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, DLG will hold no ordinary shares in treasury and will have 1,342,685,566 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,685,566. This is the figure which should be used by shareholders as the denominator when determining whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in DLG, under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades by Goldman Sachs is detailed below:

Date	Time	Price (pence)	Quantity purchased	Exchange Venue	Reference number of transaction
23/09/2021	08:49:03	296.10	6	XLON	397130539742129
23/09/2021	08:53:09	295.80	54	XLON	397130539742882
23/09/2021	08:59:50	295.90	53	XLON	397130539744263
23/09/2021	10:48:55	294.50	87	XLON	397130539762032
23/09/2021	11:10:15	294.50	83	XLON	397130539764932
23/09/2021	12:01:00	293.70	114	XLON	397130539774608
23/09/2021	13:34:04	293.20	118	XLON	397130539784542
23/09/2021	14:19:20	292.80	97	XLON	397130539790657
23/09/2021	14:42:43	292.90	99	XLON	397130539797499
23/09/2021	15:23:22	293.30	124	XLON	397130539808069
23/09/2021	16:12:22	290.90	100	XLON	397130539820576
23/09/2021	16:29:56	290.30	65	XLON	397130539828074

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

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Roger Clifton
Company Secretary
Telephone: [phone]

 

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