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Result of Annual General Meeting
At the Annual General Meeting of Diageo plc held on Thursday, 26 September 2024 (the “AGM”), all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2024 (the “Notice”) were passed.
The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:
| VOTES FOR | % FOR |
VOTES AGAINST |
% AGAINST |
VOTES WITHHELD |
||
| Report and accounts 2024 | 1,730,931,508 | 99.96 | 705,282 | 0.04 | 7,789,052 | |
| Directors’ remuneration report 2024 | 1,652,770,668 | 96.11 | 66,983,213 | 3.89 | 19,727,804 | |
| Declaration of final dividend | 1,738,257,368 | 99.96 | 750,094 | 0.04 | 419,232 | |
| Appointment of Julie Brown as a director | 1,736,947,488 | 99.90 | 1,770,868 | 0.10 | 665,994 | |
| Appointment of Nik Jhangiani as a director | 1,735,736,572 | 99.83 | 2,904,612 | 0.17 | 718,934 | |
| Re-appointment of Melissa Bethell as a director | 1,733,472,126 | 99.86 | 2,427,431 | 0.14 | 3,381,169 | |
| Re-appointment of Karen Blackett as a director | 1,733,459,179 | 99.85 | 2,539,730 | 0.15 | 3,373,885 | |
| Re-appointment of Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet as a director | 1,732,875,160 | 99.82 | 3,091,404 | 0.18 | 3,386,723 | |
| Re-appointment of Debra Crew as a director | 1,737,206,836 | 99.92 | 1,413,253 | 0.08 | 746,518 | |
| Re-appointment of Javier Ferrán as a director | 1,721,676,813 | 99.42 | 10,109,654 | 0.58 | 7,562,844 | |
| Re-appointment of Susan Kilsby as a director | 1,727,230,743 | 99.50 | 8,756,036 | 0.50 | 3,360,132 | |
| Re-appointment of Sir John Manzoni as a director | 1,736,704,057 | 99.88 | 2,002,969 | 0.12 | 649,965 | |
| Re-appointment of Ireena Vittal as a director | 1,559,141,103 | 89.81 | 176,853,361 | 10.19 | 3,372,511 | |
| Re-appointment of Auditor | 1,730,483,955 | 99.51 | 8,446,856 | 0.49 | 512,207 | |
| Remuneration of Auditor | 1,735,346,376 | 99.80 | 3,494,670 | 0.20 | 583,552 | |
| Authority to make political donations and/or to incur political expenditure | 1,696,943,654 | 98.05 | 33,737,211 | 1.95 | 8,829,565 | |
| Authority to allot shares | 1,668,947,204 | 95.99 | 69,652,756 | 4.01 | 852,654 | |
| Disapplication of pre-emption rights* | 1,692,098,713 | 97.56 | 42,341,793 | 2.44 | 5,006,019 | |
| Authority to purchase own ordinary shares* | 1,728,435,535 | 99.47 | 9,186,355 | 0.53 | 1,794,893 | |
| Reduced notice of a general meeting other than an AGM* | 1,650,471,013 | 95.00 | 86,877,522 | 5.00 | 2,091,388 |
On 26 September 2024, there were 2,225,088,636 ordinary shares (excluding treasury shares) in issue.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, 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.
James Edmunds
Deputy Company Secretary
27 September 2024