Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6658J

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

25 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
24 August 2021	35,000	311.30	308.40	309.57	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 1,342,872,888 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,872,888. 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
24/08/2021	08:54:00	309.20	730	XLON	378576281019581
24/08/2021	09:09:00	309.40	574	XLON	378576281021464
24/08/2021	09:25:00	309.20	845	XLON	378576281023549
24/08/2021	09:36:00	309.30	111	XLON	378576281024651
24/08/2021	09:36:00	309.30	112	XLON	378576281024652
24/08/2021	09:36:00	309.30	109	XLON	378576281024653
24/08/2021	09:36:00	309.30	59	XLON	378576281024654
24/08/2021	09:36:00	309.30	107	XLON	378576281024655
24/08/2021	09:36:00	309.30	71	XLON	378576281024656
24/08/2021	09:42:00	309.20	1,261	XLON	378576281025487
24/08/2021	09:42:00	309.20	772	XLON	378576281025490
24/08/2021	10:00:00	308.40	1,162	XLON	378576281027407
24/08/2021	10:23:00	308.70	63	XLON	378576281030060
24/08/2021	10:23:00	308.70	1,142	XLON	378576281030061
24/08/2021	10:33:00	308.60	1,189	XLON	378576281031096
24/08/2021	10:49:00	308.60	789	XLON	378576281033032
24/08/2021	10:56:00	309.20	654	XLON	378576281033835
24/08/2021	11:20:00	309.30	1,097	XLON	378576281036401
24/08/2021	11:26:00	309.60	596	XLON	378576281036996
24/08/2021	11:36:00	309.70	228	XLON	378576281038058
24/08/2021	11:36:00	309.70	543	XLON	378576281038059
24/08/2021	11:46:00	309.80	587	XLON	378576281039003
24/08/2021	11:55:00	309.40	678	XLON	378576281039952
24/08/2021	12:04:00	309.40	661	XLON	378576281040852
24/08/2021	12:18:00	309.20	20	XLON	378576281042242
24/08/2021	12:18:00	309.20	673	XLON	378576281042245
24/08/2021	12:29:00	309.00	634	XLON	378576281043034
24/08/2021	12:38:00	309.10	575	XLON	378576281043960
24/08/2021	12:58:00	309.10	1,225	XLON	378576281045944
24/08/2021	13:10:00	309.10	618	XLON	378576281047333
24/08/2021	13:26:00	309.00	681	XLON	378576281049640
24/08/2021	13:40:00	308.90	849	XLON	378576281051610
24/08/2021	14:01:00	309.20	507	XLON	378576281054746
24/08/2021	14:01:00	309.20	86	XLON	378576281054747
24/08/2021	14:01:00	309.20	569	XLON	378576281054748
24/08/2021	14:13:00	309.30	896	XLON	378576281056429
24/08/2021	14:29:00	309.40	663	XLON	378576281059070
24/08/2021	14:33:00	309.70	33	XLON	378576281061385
24/08/2021	14:33:00	309.70	771	XLON	378576281061509
24/08/2021	14:37:00	309.90	808	XLON	378576281062997
24/08/2021	14:43:00	309.60	678	XLON	378576281064920
24/08/2021	14:55:00	309.70	684	XLON	378576281068192
24/08/2021	14:55:00	309.70	616	XLON	378576281068230
24/08/2021	15:01:00	309.70	665	XLON	378576281069907
24/08/2021	15:14:00	309.60	59	XLON	378576281073051
24/08/2021	15:14:00	309.70	772	XLON	378576281073055
24/08/2021	15:14:00	309.70	258	XLON	378576281073056
24/08/2021	15:29:00	309.90	205	XLON	378576281076841
24/08/2021	15:31:00	310.10	72	XLON	378576281077484
24/08/2021	15:31:00	310.10	193	XLON	378576281077485
24/08/2021	15:31:00	310.10	1,036	XLON	378576281077486
24/08/2021	15:34:00	310.00	529	XLON	378576281078405
24/08/2021	15:34:00	310.00	222	XLON	378576281078406
24/08/2021	15:46:00	310.80	915	XLON	378576281081295
24/08/2021	15:55:00	310.90	1,029	XLON	378576281083230
24/08/2021	16:02:00	311.00	659	XLON	378576281085869
24/08/2021	16:14:00	311.30	222	XLON	378576281089140
24/08/2021	16:14:00	311.30	539	XLON	378576281089141
24/08/2021	16:21:00	311.30	852	XLON	378576281090908
24/08/2021	16:29:00	311.30	813	XLON	378576281094178
24/08/2021	16:29:00	311.30	91	XLON	378576281094179
24/08/2021	16:29:00	311.30	71	XLON	378576281094180
24/08/2021	16:29:00	311.30	72	XLON	378576281094181

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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