12th Nov 2009 14:23
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 11 November 2009 that Andrew Morgan, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities, exercised options on 11 November 2009 over 132,897 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 10 March 2003 at a price per share of 6.49 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP") and over 134,371 Ordinary Shares granted on 11 October 2004 at a price per share of 7.07 under the SESOP.
Mr Morgan subsequently sold 264,595 Ordinary Shares on 11 November 2009, at a price per share of 10.19. Mr Morgan retains the balance of 2,673 Ordinary Shares.
As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Morgan 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) is 179,830.
P D TunnacliffeCompany Secretary12 November 2009
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