Transaction in Own Shares

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Direct Line Insurance Group PLC
10 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

09 September 2021

1,000

306.50

303.20

304.48

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 1,342,695,566 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,695,566. 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

09/09/2021

08:57:22

306.50

78

XLON

388471885677111

09/09/2021

09:35:39

305.90

68

XLON

388471885684401

09/09/2021

10:21:39

303.60

88

XLON

388471885692601

09/09/2021

11:00:19

304.70

88

XLON

388471885698597

09/09/2021

12:11:47

303.50

95

XLON

388471885709302

09/09/2021

12:44:09

303.20

86

XLON

388471885713215

09/09/2021

13:52:34

303.90

102

XLON

388471885725460

09/09/2021

14:39:29

303.90

88

XLON

388471885737262

09/09/2021

14:53:19

304.70

88

XLON

388471885741243

09/09/2021

16:01:53

305.20

83

XLON

388471885766217

09/09/2021

16:19:51

304.90

84

XLON

388471885772824

09/09/2021

16:29:44

304.50

52

XLON

388471885777613

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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