Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5261J
Direct Line Insurance Group PLC
24 August 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 August 2021

34,096

310.10

307.70

308.37

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 1,342,907,888 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,907,888. 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

23/08/2021

09:00:09

310.10

567

XLON

377957805729170

23/08/2021

09:13:29

308.40

645

XLON

377957805730927

23/08/2021

09:26:40

307.80

314

XLON

377957805732505

23/08/2021

09:36:41

308.70

661

XLON

377957805733708

23/08/2021

09:40:21

308.80

932

XLON

377957805734126

23/08/2021

09:49:02

308.70

683

XLON

377957805734866

23/08/2021

09:58:29

309.00

861

XLON

377957805735765

23/08/2021

09:58:29

309.00

636

XLON

377957805735766

23/08/2021

09:58:29

309.00

861

XLON

377957805735779

23/08/2021

10:35:52

308.70

52

XLON

377957805739182

23/08/2021

10:36:03

308.70

73

XLON

377957805739233

23/08/2021

10:36:03

308.70

30

XLON

377957805739227

23/08/2021

10:36:03

308.70

1,364

XLON

377957805739228

23/08/2021

10:43:26

308.40

631

XLON

377957805739767

23/08/2021

10:46:59

308.20

623

XLON

377957805740071

23/08/2021

11:05:58

308.30

289

XLON

377957805741640

23/08/2021

11:10:32

308.20

1,152

XLON

377957805741963

23/08/2021

11:18:14

307.90

662

XLON

377957805742533

23/08/2021

11:43:52

308.40

900

XLON

377957805744493

23/08/2021

11:43:52

308.40

129

XLON

377957805744494

23/08/2021

11:43:52

308.40

1

XLON

377957805744495

23/08/2021

11:54:27

308.40

1,027

XLON

377957805745268

23/08/2021

12:02:04

308.30

503

XLON

377957805745899

23/08/2021

12:03:20

308.30

207

XLON

377957805746011

23/08/2021

12:10:02

308.20

883

XLON

377957805746443

23/08/2021

12:36:38

308.30

1,343

XLON

377957805748325

23/08/2021

12:45:33

308.00

1,109

XLON

377957805748866

23/08/2021

13:13:39

307.90

853

XLON

377957805751286

23/08/2021

13:21:00

307.70

335

XLON

377957805752292

23/08/2021

13:58:44

308.40

792

XLON

377957805756227

23/08/2021

13:58:44

308.40

62

XLON

377957805756228

23/08/2021

13:58:44

308.40

49

XLON

377957805756230

23/08/2021

13:58:44

308.40

147

XLON

377957805756231

23/08/2021

14:02:26

308.30

2,370

XLON

377957805756724

23/08/2021

14:02:26

308.40

252

XLON

377957805756726

23/08/2021

14:02:26

308.40

748

XLON

377957805756727

23/08/2021

14:24:23

308.00

640

XLON

377957805759185

23/08/2021

14:37:20

308.00

796

XLON

377957805763303

23/08/2021

14:37:20

308.00

397

XLON

377957805763304

23/08/2021

14:46:50

308.00

1,003

XLON

377957805766073

23/08/2021

14:52:18

308.10

719

XLON

377957805767605

23/08/2021

14:56:29

307.90

608

XLON

377957805768928

23/08/2021

15:05:19

308.00

747

XLON

377957805771147

23/08/2021

15:16:20

308.20

820

XLON

377957805773344

23/08/2021

15:20:51

308.10

344

XLON

377957805774082

23/08/2021

15:20:51

308.10

675

XLON

377957805774083

23/08/2021

15:28:08

308.60

732

XLON

377957805775368

23/08/2021

15:37:48

308.60

1,361

XLON

377957805776889

23/08/2021

15:44:06

308.50

329

XLON

377957805778046

23/08/2021

15:44:06

308.50

244

XLON

377957805778047

23/08/2021

15:57:21

308.30

626

XLON

377957805780556

23/08/2021

16:09:02

308.30

1,309

XLON

377957805783204

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: +44 (0)1651 831 956

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