Diageo has completed another share buyback transaction. The company said yesterday (13 April) that it has acquired a further 500,000 ordinary shares to be held as treasury shares.


The transaction, through CSFB Europe Ltd, valued the shares at a price of 790.44 pence each.


Following this purchase, Diageo now holds 66.88m ordinary shares as treasury shares. The remaining number of ordinary shares in issue now stands at 2,983,123,890.