0000014693-12-000046.txt : 20120502 0000014693-12-000046.hdr.sgml : 20120502 20120502135835 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000014693-12-000046 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: McCallum Mark I CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001369191 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-26821 FILM NUMBER: 12804180 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 850 DIXIE HIGHWAY CITY: LOUISVILLE STATE: KY ZIP: 40210 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 0001369191 McCallum Mark I 850 DIXIE HIGHWAY LOUISVILLE KY 40210 0 1 0 0 Executive VP, COO Class A Common 2012-04-30 4 F 0 803 84.59 D 6924 D Class B Common 18 I By Son Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy) 30.18 2009-05-01 2013-04-30 Class B Common 9941 9941 D Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy) 35.83 2007-05-01 2014-04-30 Class B Common 6992 6992 D Stock Appreciation Right 45.53 2008-05-01 2015-04-30 Class B Common 10569 10569 D Stock Appreciation Right 55.69 2006-07-27 2016-04-30 Class B Common 2895 2895 D Stock Appreciation Right 53.80 2010-05-01 2017-04-30 Class B Common 10012 10012 D Stock Appreciation Right 56.58 2011-05-01 2018-04-30 Class B Common 9190 9190 D Stock Appreciation Right 43.10 2012-05-01 2019-04-30 Class B Common 14705 14705 D Stock Appreciation Right 61.24 2013-05-01 2020-04-30 Class B Common 12834 12834 D Stock Appreciation Right 73.95 2014-05-01 2021-04-30 Class B Common 14521 14521 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 803 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 obligations. Diane M. Barhorst, Atty. in Fact for Mark McCallum 2012-05-02 EX-24 2 mccallum.htm
Know all by these present that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Holli H. Lewis, Diane Barhorst, Nelea A. Absher and Thomas Rutledge, 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 and Form ID 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, and Form ID 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 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 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 7th day of July, 2006.





Signature:  /s/ Mark I McCallum