20th Apr 2011 11:45
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 on 19 April 2011 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 lieu of the Company's interim dividend paid on 11 April 2011, as follows:
Name of PDMR Number of ADSs G Ghostine 15 D Mahlan 37 I Menezes 64 R Millian 27 T Proctor 38 L Schwartz 43 G Williams 15
The ADSs were purchased on 11 April 2010 at a price of $77.69 per ADS.
As a result of the above transactions, the interests of PDMRs in the Company'sordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence ("Ordinary Shares") and ADSs (excludingoptions, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potentialbeneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) have increased asfollows:Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares G Ghostine 51,655 (of which 32,987 are held in the form of ADS) I Menezes 358,496 (of which 265,498 are held in the form of ADS) G Williams 183,836 (of which 6,288 are held in the form of ADS) Number of ADSs D Mahlan 8,901 R Millian 10,444 T Proctor 38,580 L Schwartz 6,404
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
J NichollsCompany Secretary20 April 2011
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