2nd Nov 2012 12:15
TO: Regulatory Information Service PR Newswire RE: PARAGRAPH 3.1.4 OF THE DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES
The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 1 November 2012 that the following Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs"), as participants in the dividend reinvestment programme connected with the US Employee Stock Purchase Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "USESPP"), received American Depository Shares ("ADS")* in respect of the Company's final dividend paid on 26 October 2012, as follows:
Name of Director Number of ADSs D Mahlan 45 I Menezes 52 Name of PDMR Number of ADSs G Ghostine 13 R Millian 38 L Schwartz 57 G Williams 17
The ADSs were purchased on 26 October 2012 at a price of $114.26 per ADS.
As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the Company's ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") and ADS (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 Director Number of Ordinary Shares D Mahlan 120,599 (of which 120,035 are held as ADS) I Menezes 509,940 (of which 416,942 are held as ADS) Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares G Ghostine 102,550 (of which 33,177 are held as ADS) G Williams 217,988 (of which 6,493 are held as ADS) Number of ADS R Millian 19,798 L Schwartz 19,585 J NichollsDeputy Company Secretary2 November 2012
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
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