Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9866Q

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

02 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
1 November 2021	2,000	293.90	291.80	293.27	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 1,333,236,737 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,333,236,737. 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
01/11/2021	08:40:02	291.80	196	XLON	421276845876089
01/11/2021	10:14:42	292.50	22	XLON	421276845888485
01/11/2021	10:14:42	292.50	151	XLON	421276845888486
01/11/2021	10:30:12	292.60	205	XLON	421276845890501
01/11/2021	12:06:31	293.60	176	XLON	421276845902157
01/11/2021	12:55:08	293.60	196	XLON	421276845907695
01/11/2021	13:55:28	293.80	201	XLON	421276845917552
01/11/2021	14:39:05	293.60	205	XLON	421276845925904
01/11/2021	15:13:24	293.90	242	XLON	421276845933952
01/11/2021	16:01:58	293.60	222	XLON	421276845943806
01/11/2021	16:24:46	293.50	135	XLON	421276845948796
01/11/2021	16:29:50	293.20	49	XLON	421276845950780

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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