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Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Our AGM is held in September/October each year and 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.

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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. 

2022 AGM

The 2022 AGM of Diageo plc was held at 2.30 pm on Thursday, 6 October 2022 at etc.venues St Paul’s, 200 Aldersgate, London EC1A 4HD.

All resolutions were voted on by way of poll and were passed. The total number of votes received on each resolution is as follows:

 

 

VOTES FOR

% FOR

VOTES AGAINST

% AGAINST

VOTES WITHHELD

1)       

Report and accounts 2022

1,722,433,481

99.92

1,383,479

0.08

5,104,461

2)       

Directors’ remuneration report 2022

1,612,245,424

94.79

88,630,650

5.21

28,285,201

3)       

Declaration of final dividend

1,727,049,733

99.93

1,197,584

0.07

888,536

4)       

Appointment  of Karen Blackett

1,718,998,448

99.91

1,553,193

0.09

8,491,512

5)       

Re-appointment of Melissa Bethell

1,726,121,558

99.89

1,973,238

0.11

959,729

6)       

Re-appointment of Lavanya Chandrashekar

1,724,788,455

99.83

2,926,038

0.17

1,344,624

7)       

Re-appointment of

Valerie Chapoulaud-Floquet

1,725,297,914

99.84

2,738,656

0.16

954,467

8)       

Re-appointment of Javier Ferran

1,712,858,169

99.16

14,451,564

0.84

1,720,132

9)       

Re-appointment of Susan Kilsby

1,707,310,119

99.36

10,956,962

0.64

10,759,564

10)    

Re-appointment of Sir John Manzoni

1,725,411,579

99.84

2,687,319

0.16

962,703

11)    

Re-appointment of Lady Mendelsohn

1,725,441,023

99.85

2,676,528

0.15

960,834

12)    

Re-appointment of Ivan Menezes

1,727,448,317

99.96

644,965

0.04

956,015

13)    

Re-appointment of Alan Stewart

1,726,140,599

99.89

1,917,274

0.11

961,448

14)    

Re-appointment of Ireena Vittal

1,405,068,323

89.00

173,708,201

11.00

150,424,167

15)    

Re-appointment of auditor

1,719,491,894

99.48

8,963,090

0.52

832,061

16)    

Remuneration of auditor

1,726,886,165

99.91

1,490,964

0.09

915,472

17)    

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

1,685,596,194

97.53

42,653,986

2.47

1,123,365

18)    

Amendment of the Diageo plc 2017 Irish Share Ownership Plan

1,713,097,301

99.27

12,647,467

0.73

3,572,396

19)    

Authority to allot shares

1,678,952,161

97.16

49,009,542

2.84

1,363,589

20)    

Disapplication of pre-emption rights*

1,712,331,105

99.13

15,101,933

0.87

5,406,387

21)    

Authority to purchase own ordinary shares*

1,710,880,358

99.03

16,693,265

0.97

1,736,182

22)    

Reduced notice of a general meeting other than an AGM*

1,612,899,966

93.35

114,906,837

6.65

1,444,973

 

*Special Resolution

Download the 2022 AGM documents

Notice of meeting