Transaction in Own Shares

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Direct Line Insurance Group PLC
24 September 2021
 

DIRECT LINE INSURANCE GROUP PLC

TRANSACTIONS IN OWN SHARES

Direct Line Insurance Group plc ("DLG") announces today that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 10 10/11 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Goldman Sachs International. Such purchase was effected pursuant to instructions issued by DLG on 3 August 2021, as announced on 4 August 2021:

Date of purchase

Number of shares purchased

Highest price paid: (pence)

Lowest price paid: (pence)

Volume  weighted average price paid per share (pence)

Venue

23 September 2021

1,000

296.10

290.30

293.30

LSE

 

DLG will cancel the purchased shares. 

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, DLG will hold no ordinary shares in treasury and will have 1,342,685,566 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,685,566. This is the figure which should be used by shareholders as the denominator when determining whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in DLG, under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades by Goldman Sachs is detailed below:

Date

Time

Price (pence)

Quantity purchased

Exchange Venue

Reference number of transaction

23/09/2021

08:49:03

296.10

6

XLON

397130539742129

23/09/2021

08:53:09

295.80

54

XLON

397130539742882

23/09/2021

08:59:50

295.90

53

XLON

397130539744263

23/09/2021

10:48:55

294.50

87

XLON

397130539762032

23/09/2021

11:10:15

294.50

83

XLON

397130539764932

23/09/2021

12:01:00

293.70

114

XLON

397130539774608

23/09/2021

13:34:04

293.20

118

XLON

397130539784542

23/09/2021

14:19:20

292.80

97

XLON

397130539790657

23/09/2021

14:42:43

292.90

99

XLON

397130539797499

23/09/2021

15:23:22

293.30

124

XLON

397130539808069

23/09/2021

16:12:22

290.90

100

XLON

397130539820576

23/09/2021

16:29:56

290.30

65

XLON

397130539828074

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

 

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Roger Clifton
Company Secretary
Telephone: +44 (0)1651 831 956

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