Diageo plc filings document foreign-issuer disclosures for the company's ADR and ordinary-share capital structure. Form 6-K reports furnish trading statements, interim results, regional sales commentary, operating-profit measures, cash-flow disclosures, leverage priorities and portfolio actions across Diageo's global beverage alcohol business.
The filing record also covers total voting rights, treasury shares, director and PDMR shareholding notifications, director declarations, block listing reviews, major-holdings notices and base prospectus supplements. These disclosures connect the NYSE-traded DEO ADR with Diageo's UK-listed ordinary shares, governance obligations and recurring capital-market reporting under foreign-issuer rules.
Diageo plc published restated historical regional financial results for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2025 and June 30, 2026. The company said the restatement aligns its external reporting with its new market and regional operating framework effective fiscal 27. The results were published in a press release on Diageo’s investor website.
Diageo plc reported issued capital of 2,432,397,125 ordinary shares as of August 31, 2026. It also reported 205,793,929 ordinary shares held in treasury and 2,226,657,196 total voting rights.
On September 7, the Financial Conduct Authority approved the annual renewal prospectus for a European debt issuance programme involving Diageo plc, Diageo Finance plc and Diageo Capital B.V. September notices also reported employee share awards, option grants, purchases under share plans and sales to cover tax liabilities. Awards granted on September 14 included options and conditional Restricted Stock Units; specified awards under the 2023 Long Term Incentive Plan are exercisable or vest on September 14, 2029, with some RSUs subject to performance conditions. Deferred-bonus RSUs granted to Sir Dave Lewis, Chief Executive Officer, and Nik Jhangiani, Chief Financial Officer, are due to vest on June 30, 2029.
Diageo plc has made the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2026 and Form of Proxy available to shareholders. The AGM will be held on November 5, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. at Convene in London as a combined physical and electronic meeting via the Lumi platform. The Notice and Form of Proxy have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection; both are also available on Diageo’s website.
Diageo plc (DEO) announced that Joanne Wilson will join as Chief Financial Officer during 2027, joining the Board and Executive Committee and replacing current CFO Nik Jhangiani. Nik will remain in role to support a smooth handover. Wilson is currently CFO of WPP plc and a non-executive director of Informa PLC.
Wilson’s package includes an annual salary of £900,000 and a pension contribution or allowance of 14% of base salary. Her annual incentive opportunity is 100% of salary on target and 200% maximum. A long-term incentive award of up to 550% of base salary is subject to shareholder approval of the proposed remuneration policy at the November 2026 AGM. Wilson must build a shareholding worth 550% of salary; replacement awards for incentives forfeited on leaving WPP will have fair value no higher than the forfeited awards.
Diageo plc (DEO) reports August 2026 information for investors, including its share capital and routine management share dealings. As of 31 July 2026, the company had 2,432,397,125 Ordinary Shares issued, of which 205,797,343 were held in treasury, leaving 2,226,599,782 voting rights that shareholders may use as the denominator for UK disclosure threshold calculations.
The filing also details small share purchases and matching-share awards for senior management under the Diageo 2001 Share Incentive Plan and the One World Share Incentive Plan. Transactions include a market purchase by Chair Sir John Manzoni on the London Stock Exchange and similar partnership-share purchases and matching awards by several Executive Committee members on the London and New York exchanges, all disclosed under the UK Market Abuse Regulation.
Diageo plc, a foreign private issuer, reports that its Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2026 and its Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2026 have been published, with the Form 20-F filed with the relevant securities regulator. These documents are available on Diageo’s website and the UK National Storage Mechanism. The Notice of Annual General Meeting 2026 and Form of Proxy are scheduled to be made available to shareholders on 30 September 2026. Diageo will provide hard copies of the Form 20-F, including audited financial statements, free of charge to shareholders upon request.
Diageo plc reports a mixed fiscal 2026, with reported net sales of $19.6 billion, down 3.0%, and organic net sales down 2.0% as growth in Europe, Latin America and Africa was offset by weakness in North America and Asia Pacific, especially US spirits and Chinese white spirits. Volume declined 0.4% and unfavourable price/mix reduced growth by 1.6%.
Reported operating profit fell 27.2% and basic EPS dropped to 78.1c (down 26.3%), driven by $2.5 billion of exceptional restructuring and impairment charges, including a large write-down in Türkiye and Don Papa. By contrast, organic operating profit rose 2.0% and organic margin improved 116 bps on cost savings.
Free cash flow increased to $3.2 billion and net debt fell to $20.5 billion, improving leverage to 3.1x from 3.4x. Management is investing $1.2 billion in a two-year restructuring expected to deliver about $1 billion in annual savings and has cut the total dividend to 50c (from 103.48c) to strengthen the balance sheet. A new strategy focuses on total spirits (including RTDs), Guinness in premium beer, a more integrated supply chain and a turnaround in North America.
Diageo plc reports the planned appointment of R. Alexandra (Alex) Keith as a Non-Executive Director. The appointment is effective 5 November 2026, subject to shareholder approval at the Annual General Meeting. She will also join the Board’s Remuneration and Nomination Committees from that date.
Alex Keith brings more than 35 years of international consumer goods experience and most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Procter & Gamble’s Beauty business, where she led a major global beauty portfolio. She has held leadership roles across North America, Europe and Asia, and since 2020 has been a non-executive director of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Diageo’s Chair, Sir John Manzoni, highlights her recent CEO experience in consumer goods and her role in transforming and shaping branded portfolios to respond to consumer trends.
Diageo plc is using its Capital Markets Day to outline a turnaround strategy focused on cost savings, cash generation and disciplined growth. Management targets approximately $1 billion of savings over the next three years, including about $850 million from an operating framework redesign and $150 million from supply chain initiatives. These programmes are expected to require around $1.2 billion in restructuring costs, largely related to the operating framework.
For fiscal 2027, Diageo guides to broadly flat organic net sales, with North America organic net sales down mid-single-digit, and low- to mid-single-digit organic operating profit growth supported by the cost savings. Free cash flow is guided at about $2 billion after roughly $850 million in exceptional cash costs tied to restructuring. The company expects to finish fiscal 2027 around the midpoint of its 2.5–3.0x net debt/EBITDA leverage target, assuming completion of the EABL and Royal Challengers Bengaluru transactions, and projects low-single-digit organic net sales CAGR, mid-single-digit organic operating profit CAGR, and cumulative free cash flow of about $8 billion from fiscal 2027 to 2029.