ANNUAL MEETING
INFORMATION
ABOUT YOUR PROXY MATERIALS
Our Board of Directors (the Board) is soliciting proxies for our Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on July 30, 2020 (the Annual Meeting).
This means that you can vote by proxy at the Annual Meeting by instructing us how you would like your shares to be voted, even if you cannot personally attend the meeting online.
We are providing this Proxy Statement and accompanying materials to help you make an informed decision on the matters to be considered at the Annual Meeting. We will
begin mailing this Proxy Statement and accompanying materials, and also make them available online, on or about June 30, 2020, to holders of record of our Class A and Class B common stock at the close of business on June 15,
2020, which is the record date for the Annual Meeting.
This Proxy Statement and our Integrated Annual Report, which includes our Form 10-K for fiscal 2020, are available at www.brown-forman.com/investors/annual-report/. You may request additional printed copies at any time using the contact information below.
Please let us know as soon as possible how you would like your shares voted. See How to Vote on the next page for details.
Contact Information
For information about your stock ownership or other
stockholder services, please contact Steve Cassin, our Investor Relations Manager, by telephone at (502) 774-7658, by e-mail at
Investor_Relations@b-f.com, or by mail at Brown-Forman Corporation, 850 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Kentucky 40210.
Reducing Duplicate Mailings
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
permits us to deliver a single Proxy Statement and Integrated Annual Report to stockholders who share the same address and last name. Even if your household receives only one Proxy Statement and Integrated Annual Report, each stockholder will
receive an individual proxy card. We implemented this householding process to reduce our printing costs and postage fees, and to reduce the environmental impact of our Annual Meeting. If you would like to enroll in householding, or if
your household is already enrolled but you prefer to opt out of householding for next year, please inform us using the contact information above and we will promptly fulfill your request.
ATTENDING THE ANNUAL MEETING
In light of the
public health impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Annual Meeting will be held exclusively online via video webcast to support the health and well-being of our stockholders, directors, employees, and guests.
Although you will not be able to attend the Annual Meeting physically, we hope the online meeting format will allow participation by all stockholders regardless of location.
Although only Class A stockholders may vote and submit questions at the Annual Meeting, Class A and Class B stockholders who owned their shares as of the
record date (or their legal proxies) are welcome to attend online.
To be admitted to the Annual Meeting, please visit
www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/BFA2020. If you are a Class A stockholder, you will log into the Annual Meeting by entering your unique 16-digit control number found on your proxy card or voting
instruction form. If you are a Class B stockholder, you will log into the Annual Meeting as a guest.
The meeting will start at 9:30 A.M. (Eastern Daylight Time)
on Thursday, July 30, 2020. We encourage you to access the meeting prior to the start time to familiarize yourself with the virtual platform. Online access will be available starting at 9:00 A.M. (Eastern Daylight Time) on July 30, 2020.
The virtual meeting platform is fully supported across browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari) and devices (desktops, laptops, tablets, and cell
phones) running the most updated version of applicable software and plugins. Participants should ensure that they have a strong WiFi connection from wherever they intend to participate in the Annual Meeting. If you encounter any difficulties
accessing the virtual meeting during the check-in or meeting time, you should call the technical support number that will be posted on the virtual stockholder meeting login page.
A webcast replay will be posted to our Investor Relations website at https://investors.brown-forman.com/ following the Annual Meeting.
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BROWN-FORMAN 2020 PROXY STATEMENT AND NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
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