UK capital gains tax information
For historical information which may assist in calculating chargeable gains, contact either Diageo Registrars or the Diageo company secretarial department. A fact sheet is also available on the Diageo website in the Investors section.
Shareholder services
For information on Diageo’s low cost share dealing
service, corporate ISAs and corporate PEPs, please
contact:
Low cost share dealing service
Capita Share Dealing Services
www.capitadeal.com
(online dealing)
or +44 (0) 870 458 4577 (telephone dealing)
Personal Equity Plans (PEPs) and Individual
Savings Accounts (ISAs)
PEP & ISA Administration, Halifax Share Dealing
Limited,
Trinity Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX1 2RG
Telephone +44 (0) 0845 722 5525
email customercare.hsdl@halifax.co.uk
Former GrandMet PEPs
The Share Centre, Oxford House, Oxford Road,
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP21 8SZ
Telephone +44 (0) 1296 414 141 Fax +44 (0) 1296 414 140
email info@share.co.uk
Shareholder enquiries
If you have any questions about your shareholding or
the company’s dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP), or
if you require any other guidance (eg to notify a change of address or to give instructions for dividends to be paid to a bank account), please contact Diageo Registrars at the relevant address. All requests to amend account details must be made in writing to Diageo Registrars.
ADR holders should contact The Bank of New York at the address given below.
UK – Registrar’s office
The Registrar, Diageo plc, Edinburgh Park,
5 Lochside Way, Edinburgh EH12 9DT
Telephone +44 (0) 131 519 2090 Fax +44 (0) 131 519 2011
email the.registrar@diageo.com
Republic of Ireland – Registrar’s office
The Irish Branch Registrar, Diageo plc
St James’s Gate,Dublin 8, Republic of Ireland
Telephone +353 (0) 1 643 5438 Fax +353 (0) 1 408 4814
email irish.registrar@diageo.com
USA – ADR administration
The Bank of New York, Investor Relations, PO Box 11258,
Church Street Station, New York, NY 10286-1258, USA
Telephone 1 888 BNY ADRS (Toll Free) or
+1 (212) 815 3700 (outside USA)
email shareowners@bankofny.com
Any other matters should be referred to the following:
Company secretary
Diageo plc, 8 Henrietta Place, London W1G 0NB
Telephone +44 (0) 20 7927 4617 Fax +44 (0) 20 7927 4637
email the.cosec@diageo.com
UK and International – Investor relations
Diageo plc, 8 Henrietta Place, London W1G 0NB
Telephone +44 (0) 20 7927 4267 Fax +44 (0) 20 7927 4612
email investor.relations@diageo.com
North America – Investor relations
Diageo plc, 1301 K Street NW, Suite 1000 East Tower,
Washington,DC 20005, USA
Telephone +1 (202) 715 1110 or 1 888 227 8214 (Toll Free)
Fax +1 (202) 715 1114
email investor.rel@diageo.com
Internet
You can visit the company’s website at www.diageo.com. On this site you will find the full 2007 Annual Report, 2007 Annual Review and other company information including the Corporate Citizenship Report. Via the News and Media section you can subscribe to email alerts. In the Investors section you will find a webcast and podcast of the announcement of preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2007 as broadcast on 30 August 2007.
Our shareholder services website www.diageoregistrars.com provides you with the facility to check your shareholding online, change your address, provide bank details for payment of dividends, elect for e-communications and vote on resolutions for the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.
Electronic communications with shareholders
The Companies Act 2006 now allows companies
and their shareholders to communicate with each
other using electronic communications more widely.
This will impact the despatch of annual reports
and other shareholder documents to shareholders.
Shareholders who want to receive a hard copy annual
report now need to ‘opt-in’ to do so. If shareholders
do not ‘opt-in’, the company may simply notify
shareholders that the annual report is available
for inspection on the company’s website.
In order to implement this new regime, the company is offering each shareholder the opportunity to elect how they wish to receive the annual report and other shareholder documents and shareholders who do not ‘opt-in’ to receive the annual report in hard copy will, after 2007, receive a new format annual review (which will no longer include a statutory summary financial statement) together with the notice of AGM, form of proxy and a notification that the annual report is available on the company’s website. Under the existing regime, which will remain in force, shareholders who wish to receive no hard copy documents are able to elect to receive an email notification that shareholder documents are available to be accessed on the company’s website.
After 2007 the company will no longer produce a summary financial statement and any new elections under the new regime will supersede any previous election to receive a summary financial statement.
You may request a hard copy of shareholder documents, or change your election, at any time.
Interim report
Recent changes to the Financial Services Authority
Listing Rules have removed the requirement to issue a
hard copy interim (half-yearly) report to shareholders.
As a result, the company has ceased production of
printed interim reports and will continue to issue the interim results
in the form of a press release, which will be available
on the company’s website.
Data protection
Any shareholder who does not wish to receive
Diageo shareholder offers should write to the
company secretary at the address given above.