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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001225208-13-016869
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20130725
FILED AS OF DATE: 20130729
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130729
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
REPORTING-OWNER:
OWNER DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Cook John D.
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001445047
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: 4
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-26821
FILM NUMBER: 13993587
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 850 DIXIE HIGHWAY
CITY: LOUISVILLE
STATE: KY
ZIP: 40210
4
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2013-07-25
0000014693
BROWN FORMAN CORP
BF'B
0001445047
Cook John D.
850 DIXIE HIGHWAY
LOUISVILLE
KY
40210
1
Deferred Stock Units
2013-07-25
4
A
0
2362.9500
0.0000
A
Class A Common
2362.9500
2362.9500
D
Deferred Stock Units
Class B Common
4994.8400
4994.8400
D
Stock Appreciation Right
61.2400
2010-07-22
2020-04-30
Class B Common
3002.0000
3002.0000
D
Stock Appreciation Right
43.1000
2009-07-23
2019-04-30
Class B Common
7812.0000
7812.0000
D
Stock Appreciation Right
57.6100
2008-09-25
2018-04-30
Class B Common
2833.0000
2833.0000
D
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 A common stock. Grants made on July 25, 2013, were based on the closing price of the Company's Class A common stock on that date ($74.06). 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 A common stock on the first February 1 that is at least six months following the Director's termination from Board service.
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. 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.
Exhibit 24 - John D. Cook Power of Attorney//
All holdings and prices of derivatives have been adjusted to reflect the issuer's August 2012 stock split and December 2012 special dividend.
Kelly A. Bowen, Attorney in Fact for John D. Cook
2013-07-26
EX-24
2
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned does hereby constitute and appoint each of Holli H. Lewis, Kelly
A. Bowen, Laura H. Pulliam, and Tennia Y. Hill, signing singly, the
undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
I. prepare, execute and file, for and on behalfofthe undersigned, Form ID, Forms
3, 4 and 5 (including amendments thereto) in accordance with Section 16(a) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Acf') and the rules thereunder, and
Schedules 13D and 13G (including amendments thereto) in accordance with Sections
13(d) and
13(g) of the Act and the rules thereunder;
2. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that may
be necessary or desirable to prepare and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5
(including amendments thereto) or Schedule 13D or 13G (including amendments
thereto) and timely file that Form or Schedule with the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority, and
provide a copy as required by law or advisable to such persons as the
attorney-in-fact deems appropriate; and
3. take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
that, in the opinion of the attomey- in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the
best interest of, or legally required of the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by the 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 the attorney-in-fact may approve in the
attorney-in-fact'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
herein 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 the attorney-in-fact, or the
attorney-in- fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.
The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, and their
substitutes, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are
not assuming, nor is Brown-Forman Corporation (the "Corporation") assuming, (i)
any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 or Sections
13(d) or 13(g) of the Act or (ii) any liability of the undersigned for failure
to comply with such requirements. This Power of Attorney does not relieve the
undersigned from the undersigned's obligations to comply with the requirements
of the Act, including without limitation the reporting requirements under
Section 16 or Sections 13(d) or 13(g) thereunder. The undersigned agrees that
each such attorney-in-fact may rely entirely on information furnished orally or
in writing by or at the direction of the undersigned to the attorney-in-fact.
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 and Schedules 13D and
13G Vl th respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Corporation, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned
in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys in fact. This Power of
Attorney does not revoke any other power of attorney that the undersigned has
previously granted.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this l" day of May,2013.
Signature:
/s/ John D. Cook
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