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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 AGAINST

%*

VOTES 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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