Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1418A

Diageo PLC

24 September 2015

 

TO:      Regulatory Information Service

RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notifications listed below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on the 24 September 2015 of the release of ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") and American Depositary Shares ("ADSs")* to the Director and persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMRs") on 22 September 2015 in respect of awards made under the Company's 2009 Discretionary Incentive Plan ("DIP") as set out below:

Name of Director	Grant Date	Number of ADS released	Date of release	Number of ADS sold#	Balance of ADS retained and beneficially owned
I Menezes	22 Sep 2011	16,489	22 September 2015	8,133	8,356
	28 Dec 2011	4,820	22 September 2015	2,378	2,442
Name of PDMR	Grant Date	Number of Ordinary Shares released	Date of release	Number of Ordinary Shares sold#	Balance of Ordinary Shares retained and beneficially owned
N Blazquez	22 Sep 2011	10,805	22 September 2015	5,092	5,713
J O'Keeffe	22 Sep 2011	8,154	22 September 2015	4,251	3,903
Name of PDMR	Grant Date	Number of ADS released	Date of release	Number of ADS sold#	Balance of ADS retained and beneficially owned
B Franz	22 Sep 2011	3,798	22 September 2015	1,864	1,934
A Gavazzi	20 Sep 2010	1,700	22 September	715	985

The Ordinary Shares were sold at a price per share of £17.38 and the ADSs were sold a price per ADS of $106.31.

The transactions referred to above were conducted on the London Stock Exchange (for Ordinary Shares) and the New York Stock Exchange (for ADS).

As a result of the above transactions the interests of the directors and PDMRs in the Company's Ordinary Shares and ADS's (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	No. of Ordinary Shares
I Menezes	792,710 (of which 699,712 are held as ADS)
Name of PDMR	No. of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez	85,341
A Gavazzi	72,923 (of which 39,382 are held as ADS)
J O'Keeffe	15,840
Name of PDMR	No. of ADS*
B Franz	18,865

C Matthews

Assistant Company Secretary

24 September 2015

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

# Ordinary Shares/ADS have been sold to meet the requirement to reimburse the Company for PAYE tax and National Insurance/social security liabilities on awards released under the DIP.

 

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