17th Nov 2009 16:01
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 today:
1. from Gareth Williams, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
("PDMR"), that his wife had sold 30,242 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence
in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 16 November 2009 at a price per share
of 10.22.
2. from Stuart Fletcher, a PDMR, that he had exercised options today over
117,177 Ordinary Shares granted on 20 September 2005 at a price per share
of 8.15 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP")
and over 107,795 Ordinary Shares granted on 19 September 2006 at a price
per share of 9.30 under the SESOP.
Mr Fletcher subsequently sold 210,000 Ordinary Shares on 17 November 2009, at a price per share of 10.32. Mr Fletcher retains the balance of 14,972 Ordinary Shares.
As a result of the above transactions, 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 Number of Ordinary Shares S Fletcher 167,536 G Williams 215,429 (of which 6,088 are held in the form of ADS*)
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
P D TunnacliffeCompany Secretary17 November 2009
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