8th Nov 2010 16:14
TO: Regulatory Information Service PR Newswire RE: PARAGRAPH 12.6.4 OF THE LISTING RULES
Diageo plc - Transaction in Own Shares
Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that today, it released from treasury 19,176 ordinary shares of 28101/108 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), to satisfy grants made under employee share plans. The average price at which these Ordinary Shares were released from treasury was 993.39 pence per share.
Following this release, the Company holds 252,189,119* Ordinary Shares as treasury shares and the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 2,501,767,456*.
J NichollsDeputy Company Secretary8 November 2010
*Please note that these figures include 7,832 Ordinary Shares added back into Treasury, which were incorrectly announced as released previously.
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