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Annual General Meeting (AGM)
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.
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.
2023 AGM
Our 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, 28 September 2023 at 2.30pm at etc.venues St Paul’s, 200 Aldersgate, London EC1A 4HD. This year’s AGM will again be held as a hybrid, combined physical and electronic, meeting using the online Lumi platform with an additional telephone facility for questions.
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Notice of Annual General Meeting
Form of Proxy and Letter of Direction