Share Information
Your shareholding in Diageo entitles you, as a part owner of the company, to certain rights:
- To vote at general meetings, either in person or by proxy (by post/via the web). Click here to access online proxy voting
- To receive dividends on your ordinary shares (normally paid twice a year)
- To receive certain company documents, for example the annual reports and accounts, the interim report and the Annual General Meeting documents each year
- To attend and speak at general meetings
If you do not have your name on the shareholder register because you hold your shares through a nominee, your nominee will receive any company documents sent to shareholders. You need to make arrangements with your nominee if you wish to receive such documents and to be able to attend and, on a poll, vote at general meetings.
Share Certificates
Your Diageo share certificate is evidence of your shareholding in the company and should be kept in a safe place. If you hold your Diageo shares through a nominee account or through CREST you will not have a share certificate.
The nominal or ‘par’ value of a company’s shares is shown on the share certificate. The current nominal value of Diageo’s ordinary shares is 28 101/108p each.
Diageo ordinary share certificates showing a nominal value of 25p per share or certificates for B shares can be destroyed as they are no longer valid.
Following the merger of Grand Metropolitan PLC and Guinness PLC to form Diageo plc on 17 December 1997, share certificates in either of the former names are no longer valid.
If you have a question about your certificate(s) (including the replacement of lost certificates or the consolidation of several certificates into one) or if you have a question on your shareholding, then please contact the Diageo Registrar. The e-mail address is the.registrar@diageo.com.
Click here for contact details
Click here for Frequently asked questions
Changes in personal circumstances
You should advise the Diageo Registrar in writing of any of the following:
- Change of address
- Change of name
- Change in bank details if your dividends are mandated
- If a shareholder dies
Click the below link for a change of address notification form
Change of address form (330KB) DOC
Click the below link to print off a dividend mandate form
Dividend mandate (331KB) DOC
For further details of the documents required to notify a change of name or the death of a shareholder, please contact the Diageo Registrar. The e-mail address is the.registrar@diageo.com.