Our 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.

Results of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of Diageo plc held on 5 November 2026 (the “AGM”), all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2026 were passed.

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

*Special Resolutions

VOTES FOR

% FOR

VOTES AGAINST

% AGAINST

VOTES WITHHELD

ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL VOTED

Report and accounts 2026

1,757,351,648

99.18

14,499,702

0.82

7,840,206.00

1,771,851,350

Directors' remuneration report 2026

1,742,072,493

97.92

36,986,700

2.08

883,013.00

1,779,059,193

Directors' remuneration policy

1,714,803,894

96.57

60,948,858

3.43

4,197,022.00

1,775,752,752

Declaration of final dividend

1,777,567,713

99.91

1,568,116

0.09

556,413.00

1,779,135,829

Appointment of Sir Dave Lewis as a director

1,768,844,901

99.43

10,174,311

0.57

618,326.00

1,779,019,212

Appointment of R. Alexandra ('Alex') Keith as a director

1,775,012,235

99.79

3,692,686

0.21

937,945.00

1,778,704,921

Re-appointment of Melissa Bethell as a director

1,771,870,667

99.62

6,821,466

0.38

965,677.00

1,778,692,133

Re-appointment of Karen Blackett as a director

1,773,083,366

99.68

5,629,751

0.32

940,801.00

1,778,713,117

Re-appointment of Julie Brown as a director

1,774,010,960

99.74

4,568,305

0.26

946,825.00

1,778,579,265

10)

Re-appointment of Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet as a director

1,772,980,481

99.68

5,695,588

0.32

975,613.00

1,778,676,069

11)

Re-appointment of Nik Jhangiani as a director

1,763,630,741

99.21

14,106,923

0.79

1,851,690.00

1,777,737,664

12)

Re-appointment of Susan Kilsby as a director

1,734,217,995

97.50

44,443,786

2.50

947,829.00

1,778,661,781

13)

Re-appointment of Sir John Manzoni as a director

1,700,983,724

95.63

77,739,834

4.37

866,620.00

1,778,723,558

14)

Re-appointment of John Rishton as a director

1,776,148,013

99.86

2,492,192

0.14

951,137.00

1,778,640,205

15)

Re-appointment of Ireena Vittal as a director

1,765,468,759

99.26

13,178,889

0.74

942,506.00

1,778,647,648

16)

Re-appointment of Auditor

1,704,007,223

95.78

75,035,807

4.22

632,884.00

1,779,043,030

17)

Remuneration of Auditor

1,755,418,240

98.66

23,761,850

1.34

605,516.00

1,779,180,090

18)

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

1,715,928,643

96.89

55,053,490

3.11

8,703,577.00

1,770,982,133

19)

Authority to allot shares

1,657,239,610

93.16

121,583,913

6.84

824,887.00

1,778,823,523

20)

Amendment of the Diageo 2023 Long Term Incentive Plan

1,716,829,209

96.53

61,759,532

3.47

1,099,477.00

1,778,588,741

21)

Disapplication of pre-emption rights*

1,688,777,821

95.18

85,589,771

4.82

5,303,058.00

1,774,367,592

22)

Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights*

1,614,563,623

90.80

163,609,260

9.20

1,500,851.00

1,778,172,883

23)

Authority to purchase own ordinary shares*

1,773,824,101

99.83

3,102,158

0.17

2,545,759.00

1,776,926,259

24)

Adoption of new articles of association*

1,760,341,256

98.99

17,963,821

1.01

1,166,533.00

1,778,305,077

25)

Reduced notice of a general meeting other than an AGM*

1,696,070,489

95.36

82,444,071

4.64

934,578.00

1,778,514,560

On 3 November 2026, there were 2,227,591,734 ordinary shares (excluding treasury shares) in issue. In accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.2R, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.