23rd Dec 2009 10:19
TO: Regulatory Information Service PR Newswire RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules
The notification listed below was received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 22 December 2009 that Paul Walsh, a director, exercised an option on 22 December 2009 over 93,281 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 11 October 2004 at a price per share of 7.07 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan.
Mr Walsh subsequently sold 92,281 Ordinary Shares on 22 December, at a price per share of 10.70. Mr Walsh retains the balance of 1,000 Ordinary Shares.
As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Walsh in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) has increased to 725,308.
P D TunnacliffeCompany Secretary23 December 2009
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