Diageo PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (6720V)

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RNS Number : 6720V

Diageo PLC

19 April 2016

 
TO:  Regulatory Information Service 
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 18 April 2016 of the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's interim dividend paid on 12 April 2016, as follows:

 
Name of PDMR   Number of ADSs 
B Franz        22 
J Kennedy      4 
D Mahlan       38 
S Saller       25 
 

The ADSs were purchased on 12 April 2016 at a price of $109.14 per ADS.

2. It received notification on 18 April 2016 that the following director, as a participant in the Diageo Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "Plan") received Ordinary Shares in respect of the interim dividend paid on 7 April 2016, as follows:

 
Name of Director   Number of Ordinary Shares 
Ho KwonPing                               50 
 
 

The Ordinary Shares were purchased on 7 April 2016 (with a settlement date of 12 April 2016) at a price of GBP19.20.

The ADSs and Ordinary Shares referred to in items 1 and 2 above were purchased on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the Company's Ordinary Shares and ADSs (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                  4,353 
Name of PDMR       Number of Ordinary Shares 
J Kennedy           65,804 (of which 61,208 
                        are held as ADS) 
D Mahlan           307,839 (of which 138,610 
                        are held as ADS) 
 
 
Name of PDMR   Number of ADSs 
B Franz            19,116 
 S Saller          19,342 
 

A Syed

Company Secretarial Assistant

19 April 2016

*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.

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