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. 

 

2023 AGM

At the Annual General Meeting of Diageo plc held on Thursday, 28 September 2023 (the "AGM"), all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2023 (the "Notice") were passed.

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

 

 

 

VOTES FOR

% FOR

VOTES AGAINST

% AGAINST

VOTES WITHHELD

1)

Report and accounts 2023

1,730,313,214

99.73

4,675,943

0.27

9,230,861

2)

Directors' remuneration report 2023

1,640,705,024

95.51

77,090,228

4.49

26,428,462

3)

Directors' remuneration policy 2023

1,663,080,546

95.41

80,098,370

4.59

1,023,145

4)

Adoption of Diageo 2023 Long term Incentive Plan

1,702,003,773

97.69

40,327,324

2.31

1,885,984

5)

Declaration of final dividend

1,742,731,449

99.94

1,004,353

0.06

482,772

6)

Appointment of Debra Crew as a director

1,740,161,980

99.95

956,387

0.05

3,050,687

7)

Re-appointment of Javier Ferrán as a director

1,717,222,413

98.88

19,379,866

1.12

7,562,267

8)

Re-appointment of Lavanya Chandrashekar as a director

1,740,257,345

99.81

3,280,390

0.19

625,314

9)

Re-appointment of Susan Kilsby as a director

1,737,894,805

99.68

5,653,382

0.32

603,450

10) 

Re-appointment of Melissa Bethell as a director

1,736,154,378

99.83

2,914,088

0.17

5,087,207

11) 

Re-appointment of Karen Blackett as a director

1,739,136,112

99.75

4,411,744

0.25

623,277

12) 

Re-appointment of Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet as a director

1,740,526,270

99.83

3,000,256

0.17

613,347

13) 

Re-appointment of Sir John Manzoni as a director

1,741,323,203

99.87

2,220,490

0.13

619,648

14) 

Re-appointment of Alan Stewart as a director

1,730,760,959

99.28

12,484,575

0.72

908,352

15) 

Re-appointment of Ireena Vittal as a director

 

1,682,465,409

96.63

58,632,878

3.37

3,064,144

16) 

Appointment of Auditor

 

1,739,506,989

99.76

4,190,816

0.24

474,002

17) 

Remuneration of Auditor

1,741,851,647

99.92

1,440,055

0.08

896,305

18) 

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

1,711,364,017

98.23

30,886,112

1.77

2,005,462

19) 

Authority to allot shares

1,697,293,273

97.36

46,005,710

2.64

839,491

20) 

Disapplication of pre-emption rights*

1,713,329,779

98.50

26,060,871

1.50

4,793,929

21) 

Authority to purchase own ordinary shares*

1,728,897,783

99.25

13,141,953

0.75

2,065,539

22) 

Adoption of new articles of association*

1,741,699,203

99.92

1,404,634

0.08

1,080,750

23) 

Reduced notice of a general meeting other than an AGM*

1,658,637,518

95.14

84,649,259

4.86

925,454

* Special Resolution

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2023