Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Our AGM gives shareholders the opportunity to vote on various company matters, either by attending the meeting and voting in person or by sending in a proxy vote (to be used for a poll vote) in hard copy or electronic form.

If you attend the AGM, you have the opportunity to put questions to the Board of Directors and to speak to individual directors personally after the meeting. If you are unable to attend, or if you have any questions you wish to put to any of the directors during the course of the year, you may write to the company.

Investor contacts

As an ordinary shareholder you are entitled to attend, speak and vote at general meetings of the company. As an ADR holder (American Depository Receipt) you are entitled to vote by proxy which is then exercised on your behalf by the depositary bank, Citibank.

Holders of Diageo ADRs will receive voting materials and have the sole right to vote the ordinary shares of Diageo represented by their ADRs, which are held by Citibank. Proxy votes received by the return date are exercised through Citibank. To be eligible to vote, ADR holders must be on the register on the AGM record date.

The company is required by law to hold an AGM each year. If an important matter requiring shareholder approval cannot wait until the next AGM, the company will call an Extraordinary General Meeting.

2025 AGM

At the Annual General Meeting of Diageo plc held on Thursday, 6 November 2025 (the “AGM”), all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2025 (the “Notice”) were passed.

The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:

VOTES FOR

% FOR

VOTES AGAINST

% AGAINST

VOTES WITHHELD

Report and accounts 2025

1,747,464,979

99.89

1,901,523

0.11

7,343,602

Directors’ remuneration report 2025

1,549,090,796

89.19

187,800,216

10.81

20,114,060

Declaration of final dividend

1,749,293,961

99.61

6,927,099

0.39

501,064

Appointment of John Rishton as a director

1,709,493,082

97.37

46,120,119

2.63

1,052,263

Re-appointment of Melissa Bethell as a director

1,673,567,449

95.33

82,026,193

4.67

1,070,234

Re-appointment of Karen Blackett as a director

1,675,211,913

95.43

80,258,248

4.57

1,194,347

Re-appointment of Julie Brown as a director

1,715,951,687

98.26

30,468,393

1.74

10,242,308

Re-appointment of Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet as a director

1,722,182,656

98.10

33,386,419

1.90

1,096,873

Re-appointment of Nik Jhangiani as a director

1,743,547,160

99.31

12,110,332

0.69

997,636

10)

Re-appointment of Susan Kilsby as a director

1,700,384,635

96.86

55,179,470

3.14

1,092,223

11)

Re-appointment of Sir John Manzoni as a director

1,679,813,820

95.71

75,272,616

4.29

1,570,320

12)

Re-appointment of Ireena Vittal as a director

1,666,873,106

94.96

88,544,508

5.04

1,187,330

13)

Re-appointment of Auditor

1,741,723,752

99.19

14,187,427

0.81

768,376

14)

Remuneration of Auditor

1,753,403,642

99.86

2,499,705

0.14

788,485

15)

Authority to make political donations and/or to incur political expenditure

1,704,372,826

97.56

42,628,579

2.44

9,731,939

16)

Authority to allot shares

1,689,472,781

96.23

66,198,294

3.77

1,027,009

17)

Adoption of the Diageo 2025 Share Value Plan

1,747,881,303

99.58

7,378,658

0.42

1,433,895

18)

Disapplication of pre-emption rights*

1,721,097,575

98.25

30,733,014

1.75

4,818,203

19)

Authority to purchase own ordinary shares*

1,750,918,143

99.80

3,548,570

0.20

2,215,023

20)

Adoption of new articles of association*

1,752,557,180

99.84

2,740,980

0.16

1,367,108

21)

Reduced notice of a general meeting other than an AGM*

1,674,335,840

95.39

80,975,815

4.61

1,363,323

*Special Resolution

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2025