Result of AGM

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Diageo PLC
01 October 2021
 

Diageo plc
LEI: 213800ZVIELEA55JMJ32

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of Diageo plc held on Thursday, 30 September 2021 (the "AGM"), all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2021 (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 2021

1,744,473,475

99.81

3,272,009

0.19

5,683,139

2) 

Directors' remuneration report 2021

1,661,293,734

96.04

68,483,076

3.96

23,650,135

3) 

Declaration of final dividend

1,749,775,174

99.82

3,194,816

0.18

434,525

4) 

Election of Lavanya Chandrashekar as a director

1,749,008,414

99.79

3,672,609

0.21

648,938

5) 

Election of Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet as a director

1,749,671,363

99.90

1,775,357

0.10

1,879,449

6) 

Election of Sir John Manzoni as a director

1,749,494,008

99.89

1,902,528

0.11

1,912,261

7) 

Election of Ireena Vittal as a director

1,491,809,494

93.04

111,615,760

6.96

149,882,366

8) 

Re-election of Melissa Bethell as a director

1,746,853,982

99.74

4,587,190

0.26

1,866,405

9) 

Re-election of Javier Ferràn as a director

1,742,259,593

99.48

9,157,035

0.52

1,877,409

10) 

Re-election of Susan Kilsby as a director

1,666,851,846

95.17

84,525,765

4.83

1,879,485

11) 

Re-election of Lady Mendelsohn as a director

1,749,495,412

99.89

1,887,429

0.11

1,893,536

12) 

Re-election of Ivan Menezes as a director

1,751,542,776

99.95

892,147

0.05

645,104

13) 

Re-election of Alan Stewart as a director

1,749,646,201

99.90

1,728,328

0.10

1,882,052

14) 

Re-appointment of auditor

1,742,879,604

99.43

9,956,533

0.57

530,634

15) 

Remuneration of auditor

1,750,303,428

99.86

2,409,690

0.14

591,966

16) 

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

1,680,953,677

97.34

45,979,318

2.66

26,519,144

17) 

Authority to allot shares

1,663,055,573

96.83

54,522,624

3.17

35,767,516

18) 

Disapplication of pre-emption rights

1,685,837,432

98.39

27,667,078

1.61

39,788,572

19) 

Authority to purchase own ordinary shares

1,725,162,526

98.62

24,071,769

1.38

4,129,263

20) 

Reduced notice of a general meeting other than an AGM

1,581,026,394

91.47

147,380,203

8.53

24,964,149

 

On 28 September 2021, there were 2,332,333,633 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
1 October 2021

 

 

 

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