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: [phone]

 

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