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 12
November 2012 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 directors of the Company were allocated Ordinary Shares on 12
November 2012 under the Plan, by Diageo Share Ownership Trustees Limited (the
"Trustee"):
Name of Director Number of Ordinary Shares
D Mahlan 11
PS Walsh 10
(ii) the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")
were allocated Ordinary Shares on 12 November 2012 under the Plan, by the
Trustee:
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 11
D Gosnell 10
J Grover 10
A Morgan 10
G Williams 10
I Wright 10
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
£18.11.
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 12
November 2012 from Dr FB Humer, a director
of the Company, that he had purchased 458 Ordinary Shares on 12 November
2012 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
£18.11.
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 43,505
D Mahlan 120,610 (of which 120,035 are held as
ADS)
PS Walsh
803,064
Name of PDMR Number of Ordinary Shares
N Blazquez 72,291
D Gosnell 107,649
J Grover 183,140
A Morgan 190,006
G Williams 217,998 (of which 6,493 are held as ADS)
I Wright 50,499
J Nicholls
Deputy Company Secretary
12 November 2012
*1 ADS is the equivalent of 4 Ordinary Shares.