0000014693-24-000018.txt : 20240313 0000014693-24-000018.hdr.sgml : 20240313 20240313164805 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000014693-24-000018 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20240312 FILED AS OF DATE: 20240313 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20240313 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Whiting Lawson E CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001572783 ORGANIZATION NAME: FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-00123 FILM NUMBER: 24746643 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 850 DIXIE HIGHWAY CITY: LOUISVILLE STATE: KY ZIP: 40228 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BROWN FORMAN CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000014693 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BEVERAGES [2080] ORGANIZATION NAME: 04 Manufacturing 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: 850 DIXIE HIGHWAY CITY: LOUISVILLE STATE: KY ZIP: 40210 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 wk-form4_1710362875.xml FORM 4 X0508 4 2024-03-12 0 0000014693 BROWN FORMAN CORP BFA, BFB 0001572783 Whiting Lawson E 850 DIXIE HIGHWAY LOUISVILLE KY 40210 1 1 0 0 President & CEO 0 Class B Common 2024-03-12 4 M 0 15601 35.603 A 41045 D Class B Common 2024-03-12 4 F 0 12617 55.16 D 28428 D Class B Common 0.7095 I DRIP Stock Appreciation Right 35.603 2024-03-12 4 M 0 15601 0 D 2017-05-01 2024-04-30 Class B Common 15601 0 D The closing price of BF-B on March 11, 2024, was used to calculate the withholding obligation. Number of shares acquired through the issuer's dividend reinvestment plan as of March 12, 2024. Nancie Oliver Mauffray, Attorney in Fact for Lawson E. Whiting 2024-03-13 EX-24 2 formofsecuritiespoa2024-lw.htm EX-24 Document

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned does hereby constitute and appoint each of Michael E. Carr, Jr., Mary E. Barrazotto, Nancie Oliver Mauffray, Laura H. Pulliam, and Mary C. Garris, signing singly, and with full power of substitution and re-substitution, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact (each of such persons and their substitutes being referred to herein as the “Attorney-in-Fact”) to:

1.Prepare, execute, and submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required or considered by the Attorney-in-Fact to be advisable under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

2.Prepare, execute and submit to the SEC, Brown-Forman Corporation (the “Company”), and/or any national securities exchange on which the Company’s securities are listed any and all reports (including any amendments thereto) the undersigned is required to file with the SEC, or which the Attorney-in-Fact considers it advisable to file with the SEC, under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act or any rule or regulation thereunder, or under Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Rule 144”), with respect to any security of the Company, including Forms 3, 4 and 5, Schedules 13D and 13G, and Forms 144; and

3.Obtain, as the undersigned’s representative and on the undersigned’s behalf, information regarding transactions in the Company’s equity securities from any third party, including the Company and any brokers, dealers, employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such third party to release any such information to the Attorney-in-Fact.

The undersigned acknowledges that:

(a)This Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, the Attorney-in-Fact to act in his or her discretion on information provided to such Attorney-in-Fact without independent verification of such information;

(b)Any documents prepared or executed by the Attorney-in-Fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such information as the Attorney-in-Fact, in his or her discretion, deems necessary or desirable;

(c)Neither the Company nor the Attorney-in-Fact assumes any liability for the undersigned’s responsibility to comply with the requirements of Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act or Rule 144, any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or any liability of the undersigned for disgorgement of profits under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and

(d)This Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned’s obligations under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act, including, without limitation, the reporting requirements under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

The undersigned hereby grants to each 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
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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 each act 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.

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, Schedules 13D and 13G, or Forms 144 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 Attorney-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 22nd day of February, 2024.


/s/Lawson Whiting
Signature


Lawson Whiting
Printed name

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