10th May 2013 15:16
DIAGEO PLC - Director/PDMR ShareholdingDIAGEO PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding
PR Newswire
London, May 10
The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of theDisclosure and Transparency Rules.
Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:
1. It received notification on 10 May 2013 of the following allocations of
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely:
(i) the following directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10May 2013 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the"Trustee"): Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares D Mahlan 9 PS Walsh 9(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 May 2013 under the Plan, by the Trustee:
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares N Blazquez 9 D Gosnell 9 J Grover 9 A Morgan 9 S Moriarty 9 G Williams 9 I Wright 9The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf ofthe employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deductedfrom salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every twoSharepurchase Ordinary Shares.
The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch OrdinaryShares were awarded at a price per share of £20.19.
The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. SharematchOrdinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three yearsafter the award date.
2. It received notification on 10 May 2013 that Dr FB Humer, a director of the
Company, had purchased 411 Ordinary Shares on 10 May 2013 under an arrangement with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of £ 8,000 each month, net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary Shares. Dr Humer has agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he remains a director of the Company.The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £20.19.
3. It received notification on 10 May 2013 that Gareth Williams, a PDMR,
exercised options on 10 May 2013 over 89,914 Ordinary Shares granted under
the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan ("SESOP"). The options
were granted on 18 September 2007 at an exercise price of £10.51.
Of the shares arising, Mr Williams sold 88,500 Ordinary Shares at a price perOrdinary Share of £20.19 and retained the balance of 1,414 Ordinary Shares.
As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in theCompany's Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares ("ADS")* (excludingoptions, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potentialbeneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows:
Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares Dr FB Humer 46,459 D Mahlan 132,324 (of which 131,691 are held as ADS)PS Walsh 769,641 Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares N Blazquez 72,434 D Gosnell 110,555 J Grover 187,021 A Morgan 142,985 S Moriarty 28,750 G Williams 179,680 (of which 6,535 are held as ADS) I Wright 56,305 J Nicholls Deputy Company Secretary 10 May 2013*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
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