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 on 20
January 2015 that, in connection with the Company's US Employee Stock Purchase
Plan (also known as the US Sharevalue Plan) (the "USESPP"), the following
Director and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs")
purchased, on 20 January 2015, American Depositary Shares ("ADS")* as
participants in the USESPP at a price of $108.32 per ADS as follows:
Name of Director Number of ADSs
I Menezes 30.77
Name of PDMR Number of ADSs
A Gavazzi 184.64
S Saller 184.64
L Schwartz 184.64
As a result of these transactions, the interests of the Director 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 No. of Ordinary Shares
I Menezes 715,117 (of which 622,119
held as ADS)
Name of PDMR No. of Ordinary Shares
A Gavazzi 63,125 (of which 35,442 held
as ADS)
Name of PDMR No. of ADS
S Saller 17,662
L Schwartz 26,309
J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
22 January 2015
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares