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 9 December 2014 that Leanne Wood, a Person
Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"), sold 349 ordinary shares
of 28 101/108 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on 5 December
2014 at a price per share of £19.60.
2. It received notification on 10 December 2014 of the following allocations
of Ordinary Shares under the Diageo Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"),
namely:
(i) the following director of the Company was allocated Ordinary Shares on 10
December 2014 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):
Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares
D Mahlan 9
(ii) the following PDMRs were allocated Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2014
under the Plan, by the Trustee:
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 9
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 £19.14.
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.
3. It received notification on 10 December 2014 that Dr FB Humer, a director
of the Company, had purchased 433 Ordinary Shares on 10 December 2014 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 £19.14.
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 56,836
D Mahlan 279,429 (of which 137,481 are held as
ADS)*
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 96,254
S Moriarty 41,847
L Wood 6,557
J Fahey
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
10 December 2014
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.© 2014 PR Newswire
