AGM Information • Oct 9, 2023
AGM Information
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At the Annual General Meeting of the above-named Company duly convened and held at etc.venues St Paul's, 200 Aldersgate, London EC1A 4HD on Thursday, 28 September 2023, the following Resolutions were duly passed:
THAT, in accordance with sections 366 and 367 of the Companies Act 2006 (the 'Act'), the Company and all companies that are, at any time during the period for which this resolution has effect, subsidiaries of the Company be authorised to:
in each case during the period beginning with the date of passing this resolution and ending at the conclusion of next year's AGM (or, if earlier, midnight on 27 December 2024), and provided that the aggregate amount of political donations and political expenditure so made and incurred by the Company and its subsidiaries pursuant to this resolution shall not exceed £100,000.
THAT the Board be generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 551 of the Act, in substitution for all subsisting authorities, to exercise all powers of the Company to allot shares in the Company and to grant rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in the Company up to an aggregate nominal amount of £216,729,334, such authority to apply until the conclusion of next year's AGM (or, if earlier, until midnight on 27 December 2024) save that under such authority the Company may, before such expiry, make an offer or agreement which would or might require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares to be granted after such expiry and the Directors may allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the relevant authority conferred hereby had not expired.
THAT the Diageo 2023 Long Term Incentive Plan (the 'DLTIP'), the principal terms of which are summarised in Appendix A to this AGM notice, and the rules of which are produced to the meeting and initialled by the Chairman for the purposes of identification, be approved and the Directors be authorised to establish such schedules to the DLTIP as they may consider necessary in relation to employees outside the UK, with such modifications as may be necessary or desirable to take account of local tax, exchange control or securities law in overseas territories, provided that any shares made available under such schedules are treated as counting against the limits on individual and overall participation contained in the DLTIP.
THAT, if Resolution 19 is passed, in substitution for all subsisting authorities, the Board be given power to allot equity securities (as defined in the Act) for cash under the authority given by that resolution and/or to sell ordinary shares of the Company held as treasury shares for cash, in each case, as if section 561(1) of the Act did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such power to be limited:
and so that the Board may impose any limits, exclusions or restrictions and make any arrangements which it considers necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, or legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter (including any matters arising by virtue of equity securities being represented by depositary receipts);
such power to apply until the conclusion of next year's AGM (or, if earlier, until midnight on 27 December 2024) save that the Company may, before such expiry, make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted (and/or treasury shares to be sold) after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities and/or sell treasury shares in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the relevant power conferred hereby had not expired.
THAT the Company be authorised for the purposes of section 701 of the Act to make one or more market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of its ordinary shares on such terms and in such manner as the Board may from time to time determine but subject to the following restrictions and provisions:
THAT with effect from the passing of this resolution, the amended articles of association of the Company, produced to the meeting and signed by the Chairman for the purpose of identification, be adopted as the articles of association of the Company in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the Company's existing articles of association.
THAT a general meeting of the Company other than an AGM may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
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T Shropshire Company Secretary Diageo plc
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