12th Dec 2011 16:10
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 12 December 2011 that Ivan Menezes, had on 6 December 2011, transferred 21,885 American Depository Shares in the Company ("ADSs")* held in a grantor retained annuity trust ("GRAT") to his own name. Mr Menezes is the grantor and sole trustee of the GRAT, and his two children are the beneficiaries.
Mr Menezes subsequently transferred 6,800 ADSs held in his GRAT to a trust account, of which his spouse is a trustee, also for the benefit of his children.
As a result of the above transaction the interests of Mr Menezes in ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") and ADSs (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as a potential beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) remain at 429,653 (of which 336,656 are held as ADS).
J Nicholls
Deputy Company Secretary
12 December 2011
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
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