Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1844L

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

09 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
08 September 2021	1,500	308.50	305.70	307.11	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 1,342,696,566 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,696,566. 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
08/09/2021	08:58:47	307.00	113	XLON	387853410385594
08/09/2021	09:35:23	305.70	99	XLON	387853410393473
08/09/2021	10:06:10	305.90	141	XLON	387853410399466
08/09/2021	10:55:54	305.90	140	XLON	387853410407805
08/09/2021	12:00:42	306.90	145	XLON	387853410416824
08/09/2021	13:11:33	306.90	125	XLON	387853410425139
08/09/2021	14:01:43	306.90	138	XLON	387853410433276
08/09/2021	14:32:06	307.70	147	XLON	387853410439731
08/09/2021	15:11:28	308.50	185	XLON	387853410454299
08/09/2021	16:02:01	308.10	144	XLON	387853410472260
08/09/2021	16:29:53	307.80	123	XLON	387853410484551

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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