0000014693-12-000045.txt : 20120502 0000014693-12-000045.hdr.sgml : 20120502 20120502133808 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000014693-12-000045 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120430 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120502 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120502 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MORREAU JANE C CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001259381 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-26821 FILM NUMBER: 12804058 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 X0305 4 2012-04-30 0000014693 BROWN FORMAN CORP BFA, BFB 0001259381 MORREAU JANE C 850 DIXIE HIGHWAY LOUISVILLE 40210 0 1 0 0 SVP, Director Finance Class A Common 2012-04-30 4 F 0 283 84.59 D 674 D Class B Common 35 D Class B Common 1493.107 D Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy) 30.18 2006-05-01 2013-04-30 Class B Common 3741 3741 D Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy) 35.83 2007-05-01 2014-04-30 Class B Common 3309 3309 D Stock Appreciation Right 45.53 2008-05-01 2015-04-30 Class B Common 2859 2859 D Stock Appreciation Right 55.69 2006-07-27 2016-04-30 Class B Common 5270 5270 D Stock Appreciation Right 53.80 2010-05-01 2017-04-30 Class B Common 5830 5830 D Stock Appreciation Right 56.58 2011-05-01 2018-04-30 Class B Common 4474 4474 D Stock Appreciation Right 43.10 2012-05-01 2019-04-30 Class B Common 7192 7192 D Stock Appreciation Right 61.24 2013-05-01 2020-04-30 Class B Common 7899 7899 D Stock Appreciation Right 73.95 2014-05-01 2021-04-30 Class B Common 9013 9013 D To satisfy tax withholding obligations associated with the July 24, 2008 grant of Class A common stock that vested on April 30, 2012, the reporting person surrendered 283 shares of Class A common stock. The closing price of BF-A ($84.59) on April 30, 2012 was used to calculate the tax withholding obligation. Includes shares acquired through the Brown-Forman Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Program as of close of business on May 1, 2012. Diane M. Barhorst, Attn in Fact for: Jane C. Morreau 2012-05-03 EX-24 2 morreau.htm

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

each of Michael B. Crutcher, Jeff Caffee, 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 August, 2003.





Signature:  /s/ Jane C. Morreau