Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4775L
Direct Line Insurance Group PLC
13 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

10 September 2021

1,000

305.70

303.00

304.75

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 1,342,694,566 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in DLG will be 1,342,694,566. 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

10/09/2021

08:49:19

305.10

57

XLON

389090360960668

10/09/2021

09:19:40

305.60

59

XLON

389090360964528

10/09/2021

09:58:12

305.70

69

XLON

389090360968929

10/09/2021

10:31:48

305.70

89

XLON

389090360973031

10/09/2021

11:22:11

305.50

84

XLON

389090360978133

10/09/2021

12:12:29

305.40

86

XLON

389090360983494

10/09/2021

13:14:10

305.60

88

XLON

389090360989657

10/09/2021

14:02:45

305.20

87

XLON

389090360995037

10/09/2021

14:35:04

304.80

103

XLON

389090361001021

10/09/2021

15:35:10

303.20

146

XLON

389090361020900

10/09/2021

16:18:28

303.00

96

XLON

389090361035770

10/09/2021

16:29:54

303.00

36

XLON

389090361041871

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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