TO: Regulatory Information Service
PR Newswire
RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES
The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:
1. It received notification on 10 June 2014 of the following allocations of
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely:
(i) the following director of the Company was allocated Ordinary Shares on 10
June 2014 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):
Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares
D Mahlan 10
(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 June 2014 under the Plan, by the Trustee:
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 10
D Gosnell 10
A Morgan 10
S Moriarty 10
L Wood 9
The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of
the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted
from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company
("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.
The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary
Shares were awarded at a price per share of £18.84.
The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch
Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years
after the award date.
2. It received notification on 10 June 2014 that Dr FB Humer, a director of
the Company, had purchased 440 Ordinary Shares on 10 June 2014 under an
arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of £
8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary
Shares. Dr Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he remains
a director of the Company.
The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £18.84.
3. It received notification on 26 May 2014 that Ho KwonPing, a director of the
Company, had received 103 Ordinary shares as a participant in the Diageo
Dividend Reinvestment Plan.
As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares ("ADS")* (excluding
options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential
beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows:
Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares
Ho KwonPing 4,103
Dr FB Humer 53,197
D Mahlan 228,048 (of which 136,789 are held as
ADS)
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 72,665
D Gosnell 172,541
A Morgan 163,592
S Moriarty 36,111
L Wood 2,391
V Cooper
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
10 June 2014
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
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Does not distribute, republish or otherwise provide any information or derived works to any third party in any manner or use or process information or derived works for any commercial purposes.
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