TO: Regulatory Information Service
PR Newswire
RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF
THE DISCLOSURE RULES
The notification listed below is in respect of a single transaction of which
notification was received under paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure Rules and
Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985.
Diageo plc (the 'Company') announces that it received notification:
1. on 14 March 2006 from NC Rose, a director of the Company, that he had on 14
March 2006:
(i) exercised the following options:
a. over 84,716 Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ('Ordinary
Shares') granted on 12 September 2001 at a price per Ordinary Share of £
6.87 under the Company`s Senior Executive Share Option Plan (the 'Plan')
and;
b. over 18,292 Ordinary Shares granted on 11 March 2003 at a price per
Ordinary Share of £6.15 under the Plan.
(ii) sold 98,008 Ordinary Shares at a price of £9.11 per Ordinary Share, and
retained beneficial ownership of the balance of 5,000 Ordinary Shares.
As a result of the above, Mr Rose's interest in Ordinary Shares in the Company
(excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interest as a
potential beneficiary of the Company's employee benefit trusts) has increased
to 290,888.
2. on 15 March 2006 from Bailhache Labesse Trustees Limited ('Bailhache'), as
trustee of the Diageo Employee Benefit Trust (the 'Trust') that they had
transferred 103,008 Ordinary Shares to a beneficiary of the Trust on 14 March
2006, following an exercise of options under the Plan.
As a result of the above transactions the total holding of the Employee Benefit
Trust amounts to 6,513,405 Ordinary Shares.
Directors who are potential beneficiaries of the Trust are PS Walsh and NC
Rose.
15 March 2006
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