19th Apr 2010 15:00
TO: Regulatory Information Service
PR Newswire
RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules
The notification below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 16 April 2010 that the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS") in lieu of the Company's interim dividend paid on 12 April 2010, as follows:
Name of PDMR Number of ADSs* G Ghostine 14 D Mahlan 32 I Menezes 54 R Millian 20 T Proctor 35 L Schwartz 40 G Williams 14
The ADSs were purchased on 12 April 2010 at a price of $71.77 per ADS.
As a result of the above transactions, the interests of PDMRs in the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased as follows:
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares G Ghostine 40,620 (of which 32,836 are held in the form of ADS *) I Menezes 325,468 (of which 232,470 are held in the form of ADS*) G Williams 216,815 (of which 6,144 are held in the form of ADS *) Number of ADSs* D Mahlan 4,046 R Millian 9,833 T Proctor 38,484 L Schwartz 4,731
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
P D TunnacliffeCompany Secretary19 April 2010
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