0000014693-11-000057.txt : 20110801 0000014693-11-000057.hdr.sgml : 20110801 20110801144923 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000014693-11-000057 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20110728 FILED AS OF DATE: 20110801 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20110801 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BOUSQUET CHAVANNE PATRICK CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001070210 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-26821 FILM NUMBER: 111000240 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 767 FIFTH AVENUE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10153 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BROWN FORMAN CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000014693 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BEVERAGES [2080] IRS NUMBER: 610143150 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0430 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 850 DIXIE HWY CITY: LOUISVILLE STATE: KY ZIP: 40210 BUSINESS PHONE: 5025851100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P O BOX 1080 CITY: LOUISVILLE STATE: KY ZIP: 40201 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BROWN FORMAN INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19870816 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BROWN FORMAN DISTILLERS CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19840807 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BROWN FORMAN DISTILLERY CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19670730 4 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0304 4 2011-07-28 0000014693 BROWN FORMAN CORP BFA, BFB 0001070210 BOUSQUET CHAVANNE PATRICK 850 DIXIE HWY LOUISVILLE KY 40210 1 0 0 0 Non-Qualified Stock Option (Right to Buy) 44.22 2005-05-26 2014-04-30 Class B Common 572 572 D Stock Appreciation Right 45.53 2005-07-28 2015-04-30 Class B Common 6592 6592 D Stock Appreciation Right 55.69 2006-07-27 2016-04-30 Class B Common 5669 5669 D Stock Appreciation Right 53.80 2007-07-26 2017-04-30 Class B Common 6675 6675 D Stock Appreciation Right 56.58 2008-07-24 2018-04-30 Class B Common 6358 6358 D Stock Appreciation Right 43.10 2009-07-23 2019-04-30 Class B Common 7812 7812 D Stock Appreciation Right 61.24 2010-07-22 2020-04-30 Class B Common 3002 3002 D Deferred Stock Units 2011-07-28 4 A 0 812 0 A Class B Common 812 1824.87 D All outstanding derivative security amounts and exercise prices were adjusted on December 10, 2010, the record date for the Issuer's December 28, 2010 special cash dividend. These non-qualified stock options were previously reported as covering 564 shares at an exercise price of $44.86, but were adjusted to reflect the December 28, 2010 special cash dividend. These stock appreciation rights were previously reported as covering 6,498 shares at an exercise price of $46.19, but were adjusted to reflect the December 28, 2010 special cash dividend. These stock appreciation rights were previously reported as covering 5,588 shares at an exercise price of $56.50, but were adjusted to reflect the December 28, 2010 special cash dividend. These stock appreciation rights were previously reported as covering 6,580 shares at an exercise price of $54.58, but were adjusted to reflect the December 28, 2010 special cash dividend. These stock appreciation rights were previously reported as covering 6,267 shares at an exercise price of $57.40, but were adjusted to reflect the December 28, 2010 special cash dividend. These stock appreciation rights were previously reported as covering 7,700 shares at an exercise price of $43.72, but were adjusted to reflect the December 28, 2010 special cash dividend. These stock appreciation rights were previously reported as covering 2,959 shares at an exercise price of $62.13, but were adjusted to reflect the December 28, 2010 special cash dividend. Under the Brown-Forman Corporation Non-Employee Director Deferred Stock Unit Program each DSU represents the right to receive one share of the Company's Class B common stock. Grants made on July 28, 2011, were based on the closing price of the Company's Class B common stock on that date ($73.95). On each dividend payment date, participants are credited with DSU equivalents. Annual grants of DSUs vest over the course of the Board year. DSUs are paid out in class B common stock on the first February 1 that is at least six months following the Director's termination from Board service. Diane M. Barhorst, Attn in Fact for: Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne 2011-08-01 EX-24 2 bousquet.htm

Know all by these present that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints

each of Michael B. Crutcher, Thomas E. Rutledge, Diane Barhorst and Nelea A. Absher, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:



1. execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity

as an officer and/or director of Brown-Forman Corporation (the "Company"),

Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange

Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;



2. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which

may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,

complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such

form with the United States Security and Exchange Commission and any stock

exchange or similar authority; and 3. take any other action of any type

whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such

attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally

required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed

by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of

Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as

such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-facts's discretion.



The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and

authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,

necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers

herin granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or

could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,

hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such

attorney-in fact's substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue

of this power and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned

acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity

at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company

assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  This Power of Attorney shall remain in

full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms

3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in

securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in

a signed writing delivered to the forgoing attorneys-in-fact.



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be

executed as of this 12th day of May, 2005.





Signature:  /s/ Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne