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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
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