TO: Regulatory Information Service
PR Newswire
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 18 September 2014 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):
RESOLUTION VOTES FOR %* VOTES %* VOTES
AGAINST WITHELD
1) Report and 1,687,654,417 98.85% 19,579,184 1.15% 18,196,765
Accounts
2) Directors 1,643,966,601 97.01% 50,619,135 2.99% 30,844,578
Remuneration Report
3) Directors 1,663,866,061 97.47% 43,275,688 2.53% 18,288,488
Remuneration policy
**
4) Declaration of 1,720,749,983 99.97% 447,317 0.03% 4,232,873
final dividend
5) Re-election of P 1,684,816,956 98.63% 23,416,625 1.37% 17,196,152
B Bruzelius
6) Re-election of L 1,714,008,749 99.59% 7,000,260 0.41% 4,421,226
M Danon
7) Re-election of 1,711,595,642 99.45% 9,421,755 0.55% 4,412,838
Lord Davies
8) Re-election of 1,643,743,598 95.52% 77,142,639 4.48% 4,543,998
Ho KwonPing
9) Re-election of B 1,708,478,204 99.27% 12,530,159 0.73% 4,421,949
D Holden
10) Re-election of 1,713,538,330 99.57% 7,477,896 0.43% 4,414,091
Dr F B Humer
11) Re-election of 1,714,384,207 99.61% 6,640,510 0.39% 4,405,595
D Mahlan
12) Re-election of 1,720,266,183 99.96% 759,321 0.04% 4,405,258
I Menezes
13) Re-election of 1,715,430,491 99.68% 5,584,871 0.32% 4,405,581
P G Scott
14) Election of N S 1,715,345,952 99.67% 5,624,051 0.33% 4,460,109
Mendelsohn
15) Election of A J 1,715,402,733 99.68% 5,572,772 0.32% 4,449,564
H Stewart
16) Re-appointment 1,697,179,543 99.51% 8,310,998 0.49% 19,939,741
of Auditor
17) Remuneration of 1,716,683,937 99.83% 2,881,832 0.17% 5,864,465
auditor
18) Authority to 1,682,592,630 97.84% 37,072,189 2.16% 5,765,135
allot shares
19) Disapplication 1,690,332,494 98.30% 29,264,613 1.70% 5,833,210
of pre-emption
rights
20) Authority to 1,719,468,050 99.91% 1,486,477 0.09% 4,474,513
purchase own
ordinary shares
21) Authority to 1,672,041,493 97.25% 47,250,741 2.75% 6,137,190
make political
donations and/or to
incur political
expenditure in the
EU**
22) Adoption of the 1,636,407,308 96.79% 54,236,833 3.21% 34,784,853
Diageo 2014 long
term Incentive Plan
**
V Cooper
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant
19 September 2014
Notes
*As a percentage of the aggregate of votes For plus votes Against (excluding
votes Withheld).
**Resolutions other than those concerning ordinary business.
