1st Dec 2008 15:00
TO: Regulatory Information Service PR Newswire 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:
1. on 1 December 2008, that the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") had on 1 December 2008 received Ordinary Shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") upon the exercise of options under the Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2000, as follows:
Name of PDMR Grant date Option Price No. of Ordinary Shares D Gosnell 1 December 2003 ‚£5.20 3,048 I Wright 1 December 2005 ‚£6.53 572
2. on 28 November 2008, that Mr S Fletcher, a PDMR, had transferred 40,000 Ordinary Shares held in his own name to his spouse.
As a result of the above transactions, the interests of PDMRs in the Company'sOrdinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs andinterests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts)are as follows:Name of PDMR No. of Ordinary Shares S Fletcher 151,882 D Gosnell 59,336 I Wright 26,092 P D TunnacliffeCompany Secretary1 December 2008
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