1st Dec 2011 11:34
TO: Regulatory Information Service PR Newswire RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules
The notification listed below was received on 1 December 2011, under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification that on 1 December 2011, Paul Walsh, a director, exercised 150,000 options over ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP"). The options were granted on 20 September 2005 at an exercise price of £8.15 per share.
Mr Walsh subsequently sold 145,000 Ordinary Shares on 1 December 2011, at a price per share of £13.63. He retains the balance of 5,000 Ordinary Shares.
As a result of the above transactions, 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) have increased to 681,492.
J NichollsDeputy Secretary1 December 2011
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