TIDMDGE

RNS Number : 4659R

Diageo PLC

21 September 2017

 
 TO:   Regulatory Information Service 
 RE:   CHAPTER 9 PARAGRAPHS 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 OF 
        THE LISTING RULES 
 

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that:

1. in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.3 (1), copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) passed by the Company at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held on 20 September 2017 have been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

2. voting on the resolutions put to the Company's AGM was as follows (all the resolutions were passed):

 
                        VOTES FOR       %*      VOTES         %*     VOTES 
                                                 AGAINST              WITHHELD** 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 1) Report and 
  Accounts              1,958,571,162   99.70     5,794,986   0.30    18,441,398 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 2) Directors' 
  Remuneration 
  Report                1,915,370,899   97.22    54,745,724   2.78    12,690,154 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 3) Directors' 
  Remuneration 
  Policy                1,905,251,510   96.19    75,507,013   3.81     2,048,247 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 4) Final Dividend      1,981,742,644   99.99       273,999   0.01       789,981 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 5) Re-election 
  of PB Bruzelius       1,973,532,772   99.89     2,220,707   0.11     7,053,145 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 6) Re-election 
  of Lord Davies        1,967,235,676   99.57     8,519,122   0.43     7,051,833 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 7) Re-election 
  of J Ferrán      1,964,253,132   99.12    17,526,131   0.88     1,027,368 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 8) Re-election 
  of Ho KwonPing        1,854,107,434   93.98   118,831,276   6.02     9,867,921 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 9) Re-election 
  of BD Holden          1,979,083,549   99.86     2,755,067   0.14       968,015 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 10) Re-election 
  of NS Mendelsohn      1,980,445,358   99.94     1,215,260   0.06     1,146,013 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 11) Re-election 
  of IM Menezes         1,980,941,490   99.96       863,949   0.04     1,001,192 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 12) Re-election 
  of KA Mikells         1,964,648,715   99.14    17,130,099   0.86     1,027,817 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 13) Re-election 
  of AJH Stewart        1,979,524,219   99.89     2,258,443   0.11     1,023,969 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 14) Re-appointment 
  of Auditor            1,965,261,038   99.15    16,784,488   0.85       761,105 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 15) Remuneration 
  of auditor            1,967,388,727   99.27    14,505,656   0.73       911,971 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 16) Authority 
  to allot shares       1,954,361,007   98.64    27,040,866   1.36     1,404,750 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 17) Disapplication 
  of pre-emption 
  rights                1,964,232,954   99.15    16,782,975   0.85     1,787,548 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 18) Authority 
  to purchase 
  own ordinary 
  shares                1,951,867,737   98.59    27,914,923   1.41     3,023,964 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 19) Authority 
  to make political 
  donations and/or 
  to incur political 
  expenditure 
  in the EU**           1,919,454,738   97.21    55,181,875   2.79     8,169,288 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 20) Adoption 
  of Diageo 2017 
  Share Value 
  Plan**                1,859,608,157   93.87   121,449,532   6.13     1,745,482 
---------------------  --------------  ------  ------------  -----  ------------ 
 

J Guttridge

Company Secretarial Assistant

21 September 2017

Notes

*As a percentage of the aggregate of votes For plus votes Against (excluding votes Withheld).

**Resolutions other than those concerning ordinary business.

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