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:
1. It received notification on 10 June 2015 of the following allocations of
ordinary shares of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely:
(i) the following director of the Company was allocated Ordinary Shares on 10
June 2015 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):
Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares
D Mahlan 9
(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 20 June 2015 under the Plan, by the Trustee:
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 9
D Cutter 10
S Moriarty 9
L Wood 11
The number of Ordinary Shares allocated comprises those purchased on behalf of
the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted
from salary ("Sharepurchase") and those awarded to the employee by the Company
("Sharematch") on the basis of one Sharematch Ordinary Share for every two
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares.
The Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares were purchased and the Sharematch Ordinary
Shares were awarded at a price per share of £18.75.
The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee.
Sharepurchase Ordinary Shares can normally be sold at any time. Sharematch
Ordinary Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years
after the award date.
2. It received notification on 10 June 2015 that Dr FB Humer, a director of the
Company, had purchased 441 Ordinary Shares on 10 June 2015 under an arrangement
with the Company, whereby he has agreed to use an amount of £8,000 each month,
net of tax, from his director's fees to purchase Ordinary Shares. Dr Humer has
agreed to retain the Ordinary Shares while he remains a director of the
Company.
The Ordinary Shares were purchased at a price per share of £18.75.
The Ordinary Shares referred to in items 1 and 2 above were purchased on the
London Stock Exchange.
As a result of the above transactions, interests of directors and PDMRs in the
Company's Ordinary Shares and American Depository Shares ("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
Dr FB Humer 60,097
D Mahlan 280,571 (of which 137,626 are held
as ADS)*
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 79,422
D Cutter 11,911**
S Moriarty 42,358
L Wood 5,992
J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
10 June 2015
* 1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.
** The change from previously announced figure is due to a reclassification of
1,077 Ordinary Shares, that no longer form part of the number of Ordinary
Shares held by Mr Cutter.