Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7512K

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

06 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
03 September 2021	25,000	313.20	311.90	312.44	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 1,342,704,361 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,704,361. 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
03/09/2021	08:32:05	312.50	336	XLON	384761033922494
03/09/2021	08:32:05	312.50	220	XLON	384761033922495
03/09/2021	08:36:02	312.70	432	XLON	384761033923000
03/09/2021	09:05:45	312.60	141	XLON	384761033926187
03/09/2021	09:05:45	312.60	374	XLON	384761033926188
03/09/2021	09:05:45	312.60	141	XLON	384761033926189
03/09/2021	09:26:03	312.80	549	XLON	384761033928343
03/09/2021	09:26:03	312.80	136	XLON	384761033928344
03/09/2021	09:34:00	312.40	853	XLON	384761033929037
03/09/2021	09:53:28	312.50	23	XLON	384761033930632
03/09/2021	09:54:21	312.50	181	XLON	384761033930729
03/09/2021	09:54:21	312.50	901	XLON	384761033930730
03/09/2021	10:13:09	312.60	573	XLON	384761033932616
03/09/2021	10:33:28	311.90	288	XLON	384761033934747
03/09/2021	10:33:28	311.90	235	XLON	384761033934748
03/09/2021	10:33:28	311.90	165	XLON	384761033934749
03/09/2021	10:49:02	312.10	268	XLON	384761033936336
03/09/2021	10:49:02	312.10	590	XLON	384761033936337
03/09/2021	11:23:51	312.00	772	XLON	384761033939433
03/09/2021	11:40:06	312.20	1,028	XLON	384761033940505
03/09/2021	11:53:51	312.00	113	XLON	384761033941589
03/09/2021	11:56:51	312.00	716	XLON	384761033941850
03/09/2021	12:18:03	312.20	617	XLON	384761033943685
03/09/2021	12:25:31	312.10	576	XLON	384761033944433
03/09/2021	12:25:31	312.10	185	XLON	384761033944434
03/09/2021	12:53:12	312.10	942	XLON	384761033946966
03/09/2021	13:05:02	312.20	255	XLON	384761033948192
03/09/2021	13:05:02	312.20	311	XLON	384761033948193
03/09/2021	13:29:10	312.10	250	XLON	384761033951169
03/09/2021	13:29:10	312.10	332	XLON	384761033951170
03/09/2021	13:35:00	312.10	47	XLON	384761033953222
03/09/2021	13:35:00	312.10	451	XLON	384761033953223
03/09/2021	13:35:00	312.10	164	XLON	384761033953224
03/09/2021	14:01:01	312.50	667	XLON	384761033957370
03/09/2021	14:13:06	313.20	619	XLON	384761033959176
03/09/2021	14:25:20	312.40	647	XLON	384761033963578
03/09/2021	14:25:20	312.40	177	XLON	384761033963579
03/09/2021	14:33:19	312.60	715	XLON	384761033966759
03/09/2021	14:38:56	312.60	523	XLON	384761033968998
03/09/2021	14:38:56	312.60	369	XLON	384761033968999
03/09/2021	14:45:14	312.20	652	XLON	384761033970512
03/09/2021	14:58:07	312.00	864	XLON	384761033974293
03/09/2021	15:13:37	312.30	788	XLON	384761033978660
03/09/2021	15:20:59	312.40	580	XLON	384761033980393
03/09/2021	15:27:33	312.70	359	XLON	384761033981847
03/09/2021	15:27:33	312.70	207	XLON	384761033981848
03/09/2021	15:35:05	312.90	560	XLON	384761033983265
03/09/2021	15:44:17	312.60	160	XLON	384761033985450
03/09/2021	15:44:17	312.60	715	XLON	384761033985451
03/09/2021	16:06:05	312.90	446	XLON	384761033990829
03/09/2021	16:06:05	312.90	252	XLON	384761033990830
03/09/2021	16:06:05	312.90	617	XLON	384761033990831
03/09/2021	16:19:27	313.10	714	XLON	384761033994194
03/09/2021	16:27:38	312.90	807	XLON	384761033996862
03/09/2021	16:29:50	312.90	364	XLON	384761033997789
03/09/2021	16:29:50	312.90	33	XLON	384761033997816

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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