Diageo PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding

 
TIDMDGE 
 
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 9 December 2014 that Leanne Wood, a Person 
    Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), sold 349 ordinary shares 
    of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 5 December 
    2014 at a price per share of GBP19.60. 
 
 2. It received notification on 10 December 2014 of the following allocations 
    of Ordinary Shares under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), 
    namely: 
 
    (i) the following director of the Company was allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 
    December 2014  under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the 
    "Trustee"): 
 
        Name of Director             Number of Ordinary Shares 
 
        D Mahlan                     9 
 
    (ii) the following PDMRs were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2014 
    under the Plan, by the Trustee: 
 
        Name of PDMR                Number of Ordinary Shares 
 
        N Blazquez                  9 
 
        S Moriarty                  9 
 
        L Wood                      11 
 
    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 GBP19.14. 
 
    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. 
 
 3. It received notification on 10 December 2014 that Dr FB Humer, a director 
    of the Company, had purchased 433 Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2014 under 
    an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of 
    GBP8,000 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 GBP19.14. 
 
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 
 
        Dr FB Humer                 56,836 
 
        D Mahlan                    279,429 (of which 137,481 are held as 
                                    ADS)* 
 
        Name of PDMR                Number of Ordinary Shares 
 
        N Blazquez                    96,254 
 
        S Moriarty                    41,847 
 
        L Wood                         6,557 
 
 
 
J Fahey 
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant 
10 December 2014 
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares. 
 
 
 
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