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 March 2010 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 directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10
March 2010 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):
Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares
N C Rose 18
P S Walsh 18
(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 March 2010 under the Plan, by the Trustee:
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 16
S Fletcher 18
D Gosnell 18
J Grover 18
A Morgan 18
G Williams 18
I Wright 18
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 £10.89.
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 March 2010 from Dr F B Humer, a director of
the Company, that he had purchased 731 Ordinary Shares on 10 March 2010 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 £10.89.
3. it received notification on 10 March 2010 from Mr H T Stitzer, a director of
the Company, that he had purchased 91 Ordinary Shares on 10 March 2010 under an
arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of £1,000
each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary Shares.
The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £10.89.
As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares (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
Dr F B Humer 20,984
N C Rose 472,820
H T Stitzer 7,603
P S Walsh 726,362
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 44,810
S Fletcher 167,608
D Gosnell 64,314
J Grover 154,014
A Morgan 179,902
G Williams 216,715 (of which 6,088 are held as ADS
*)
I Wright 23,261
P D Tunnacliffe
Company Secretary
10 March 2010
1 AMERICAN DEPOSITARY SHARE ("ADS") IS THE EQUIVALENT OF 4 ORDINARY SHARES.
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