Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4619K

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

02 September 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
01 September 2021	25,000	310.80	309.00	309.82	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 1,342,754,361 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,754,361. 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
01/09/2021	08:23:40	309.10	91	XLON	383524083344314
01/09/2021	08:23:40	309.10	402	XLON	383524083344315
01/09/2021	08:35:02	309.00	179	XLON	383524083347623
01/09/2021	08:35:02	309.00	35	XLON	383524083347624
01/09/2021	08:50:11	309.90	293	XLON	383524083351014
01/09/2021	08:50:11	309.90	675	XLON	383524083351015
01/09/2021	09:07:32	309.80	861	XLON	383524083353870
01/09/2021	09:32:00	310.60	501	XLON	383524083357413
01/09/2021	09:32:00	310.60	124	XLON	383524083357414
01/09/2021	09:49:21	310.70	774	XLON	383524083360254
01/09/2021	09:59:24	310.80	634	XLON	383524083361445
01/09/2021	10:16:14	310.50	820	XLON	383524083363432
01/09/2021	10:38:39	310.00	118	XLON	383524083367645
01/09/2021	10:38:39	310.00	767	XLON	383524083367646
01/09/2021	10:51:29	309.90	640	XLON	383524083369563
01/09/2021	11:01:59	310.00	366	XLON	383524083370977
01/09/2021	11:01:59	310.00	224	XLON	383524083370978
01/09/2021	11:20:12	310.20	574	XLON	383524083373151
01/09/2021	11:38:15	309.70	682	XLON	383524083375450
01/09/2021	11:58:53	310.00	996	XLON	383524083377676
01/09/2021	12:17:57	310.80	720	XLON	383524083379934
01/09/2021	12:24:24	310.80	616	XLON	383524083380542
01/09/2021	12:48:37	310.10	739	XLON	383524083384874
01/09/2021	13:06:32	310.00	659	XLON	383524083388272
01/09/2021	13:20:52	309.70	627	XLON	383524083391251
01/09/2021	13:37:03	309.70	587	XLON	383524083393949
01/09/2021	13:50:55	309.40	689	XLON	383524083396116
01/09/2021	14:05:32	309.10	580	XLON	383524083399110
01/09/2021	14:15:37	309.30	660	XLON	383524083400963
01/09/2021	14:30:00	309.70	728	XLON	383524083403739
01/09/2021	14:40:15	309.90	616	XLON	383524083407850
01/09/2021	14:49:58	309.30	99	XLON	383524083410969
01/09/2021	14:49:58	309.30	583	XLON	383524083410970
01/09/2021	14:57:31	309.00	563	XLON	383524083413397
01/09/2021	15:04:09	309.50	379	XLON	383524083415750
01/09/2021	15:04:09	309.50	405	XLON	383524083415751
01/09/2021	15:18:21	309.70	382	XLON	383524083419702
01/09/2021	15:18:21	309.70	303	XLON	383524083419703
01/09/2021	15:27:44	309.90	764	XLON	383524083422054
01/09/2021	15:32:44	309.90	619	XLON	383524083423416
01/09/2021	15:43:44	309.30	741	XLON	383524083426231
01/09/2021	15:54:42	309.10	347	XLON	383524083428671
01/09/2021	16:00:39	309.30	620	XLON	383524083430143
01/09/2021	16:10:29	309.30	667	XLON	383524083432494
01/09/2021	16:23:01	309.40	678	XLON	383524083437564
01/09/2021	16:26:30	309.40	387	XLON	383524083438867
01/09/2021	16:29:41	309.70	464	XLON	383524083440374
01/09/2021	16:29:42	309.90	22	XLON	383524083440445

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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