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: [phone]

 

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