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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.
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