30th Oct 2008 15:00
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 today that the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan), received American Depository Shares ("ADS") in respect of the Company's final dividend paid on 24 October 2008, as follows:
Name of PDMR Number of ADSs* G Ghostine 19 I Menezes 96 R Millian 37 T Proctor 59 G Williams 26
The ADSs were purchased on 24 October 2008 at a price of $58.08 per ADS.
As a result of the above transactions, the interests of PDMRs in the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows:
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares G Ghostine 40,000 (of which 32,652 are held in the form of ADS*) I Menezes 319,270 (of which 226,272 are held in the form of ADS*) G Williams 243,628 (of which 5,916 are held in the form of ADS*) Number of ADSs* R Millian 9,667 T Proctor 38,013
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
P D TunnacliffeCompany Secretary30 October 2008
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