Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1319R
Direct Line Insurance Group PLC
03 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

2 November 2021

1,000

288.00

 

283.60

285.02

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 1,333,235,737 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,333,235,737. 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

02/11/2021

08:23:15

288

84

XLON

421895321165252

02/11/2021

08:40:26

285.6

67

XLON

421895321168703

02/11/2021

09:06:09

285.3

89

XLON

421895321173574

02/11/2021

11:09:52

284.2

84

XLON

421895321191837

02/11/2021

12:35:22

284.4

87

XLON

421895321202589

02/11/2021

13:02:03

283.6

95

XLON

421895321206501

02/11/2021

14:10:07

284

102

XLON

421895321220283

02/11/2021

14:48:37

283.8

105

XLON

421895321227196

02/11/2021

15:11:58

285.1

114

XLON

421895321232040

02/11/2021

16:01:49

286.6

99

XLON

421895321243816

02/11/2021

16:29:48

285.2

74

XLON

421895321251630

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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