17th Dec 2009 15:44
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 today that James Grover, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities, exercised an option on 16 December 2009 over 96,625 ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") granted on 20 September 2005 at a price per share of 8.15 under the Company's Senior Executive Share Option Plan.
Mr Grover subsequently sold 95,648 Ordinary Shares on 16 December 2009, at a price per share of 10.51. Mr Grover retains the balance of 977 Ordinary Shares.
As a result of the above transactions, the interests of Mr Grover in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential a beneficiary of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) has increased to 153,960.
P D TunnacliffeCompany Secretary17 December 2009
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