Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8077Q

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

01 November 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
29 October 2021	1,000	294.50	292.10	292.93	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 1,333,238,737 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,333,238,737. 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
29/10/2021	11:32:31	294.5	132	XLON	CONCF1270820211029E
29/10/2021	12:54:24	293.4	80	XLON	CONCF1679920211029E
29/10/2021	12:54:49	292.6	105	XLON	CONCF1689320211029E
29/10/2021	14:31:21	292.5	102	XLON	CONCF2438220211029E
29/10/2021	14:48:37	292.1	91	XLON	CONCF2698520211029E
29/10/2021	15:05:27	292.3	100	XLON	CONCF2964120211029E
29/10/2021	15:28:21	292.7	96	XLON	CONCF3374220211029E
29/10/2021	15:57:50	292.8	107	XLON	CONCF3759620211029E
29/10/2021	16:20:13	293.1	120	XLON	CONCF3988520211029E
29/10/2021	16:29:55	292.7	67	XLON	CONCF4189020211029E

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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