0000014693-12-000059.txt : 20120601 0000014693-12-000059.hdr.sgml : 20120601 20120601152645 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000014693-12-000059 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120601 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120601 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120601 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: WELCH JAMES S JR CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001197232 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-26821 FILM NUMBER: 12883173 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 1080 CITY: LOUISVILLE STATE: KY ZIP: 40201 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 2012-06-01 0000014693 BROWN FORMAN CORP BFA, BFB 0001197232 WELCH JAMES S JR 850 DIXIE HIGHWAY LOUISVILLE KY 40210 1 1 0 0 Vice Chairman Strategy and HR Class A Common 2012-06-01 4 A 0 5820 0 A 18271 D Class B Common 4251 D Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy) 35.83 2007-05-01 2014-04-30 Class B Common 15958 15730 D Stock Appreciation Rights 45.53 2008-05-01 2015-04-30 Class B Common 14754 14754 D Stock Appreciation Right 55.69 2009-05-01 2016-04-30 Class B Common 8465 8465 D Stock Appreciation Right 53.80 2010-05-01 2017-04-30 Class B Common 15019 15019 D Stock Appreciation Right 56.58 2011-05-01 2018-04-30 Class B Common 13785 13785 D Stock Appreciation Right 43.10 2012-05-01 2019-04-30 Class B Common 19763 19763 D Stock Appreciation Right 61.24 2013-05-01 2020-04-30 Class B Common 19745 19745 D Stock Appreciation Right 73.95 2014-05-01 2021-04-30 Class B Common 14020 14020 D These shares were issued on June 1, 2012 in connection with a July 23, 2009 award of Class A Common Performance-Based Restricted Stock. The award - initially determined as a cash value - was subject to a three-year performance period, which ended April 30, 2012. The number of shares issued was determined by multiplying the cash value of the award by a three-year performance adjustment factor, adjusting upwards to account for dividends paid during the second and third years of the performance period, and then dividing that amount by $46.40, which was the closing price of the issuer's Class A common stock on the date of the grant. Diane Barhorst, Atty. in Fact for: James S. Welch, Jr. 2012-06-01 EX-24 2 welch.htm

Know all by these present that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Michael B. Crutcher, John R. Edds, 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 27th day of August, 2002.





Signature:  /s/ James S. Welch Jr.