UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
Current Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
November 16, 2007 (November 15, 2007)
Brown-Forman Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware
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002-26821
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61-0143150
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(State or other jurisdiction
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(Commission File Number)
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(I.R.S. Employer
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of incorporation)
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Identification No.)
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850 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Kentucky
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40210
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(Zip Code)
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Registrants telephone number, including area code:
(502) 585-1100
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the
filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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240.14d-2(b))
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.13e-4(c))
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On November 15, 2007, the Board of Directors of Brown-Forman Corporation (the Company) adopted
certain resolutions that will enable the Company to participate in a direct registration system
(DRS) on or before January 1, 2008, as required by New York Stock Exchange Rule 501.00(B). In
connection therewith, the Board amended the Companys Bylaws to permit the issuance and transfer of
shares of the Companys capital stock in an uncertificated form.
Specifically, the Board amended and replaced in its entirety Article V of the Companys Bylaws as
follows:
ARTICLE V.
CAPITAL STOCK.
SECTION 5.1
Certificates
. Shares of the capital stock of the
corporation may be certificated or uncertificated, as provided under
the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Each
stockholder, upon written request to the transfer agent or the
registrar of the corporation, shall be entitled to a certificate or
certificates for shares of stock in such form as the Board of
Directors may from time to time prescribe. Except as otherwise
expressly provided by law, the rights and obligations of the holders
of uncertificated stock and the rights and obligations of the
holders of certificates representing stock of the same class and
series shall be identical. Upon a holders request, the corporation
shall provide evidence of ownership of such holders uncertificated shares.
SECTION 5.2
Transfer of Stock.
Upon the surrender of any
certificate for transfer of stock, such certificate shall be
conspicuously marked on its face Cancelled and filed with the
permanent stock records of the corporation. In order to surrender
any certificate for transfer of stock, such certificate must include
an assignment and power of transfer endorsed thereon or attached
thereto, duly executed and with such proof of authenticity of the
signature as the corporation or its agents may reasonably require.
Upon the receipt of proper transfer instructions from the registered
owner of uncertificated shares, such uncertificated shares shall be
cancelled, issuance of new equivalent uncertificated shares or
certificated shares shall be made to the shareholder entitled
thereto and the transaction shall be recorded upon the books of the
corporation. The Board of Directors may appoint a transfer agent
and one or more co-transfer agents and registrar and one or more
co-registrars and may make or authorize such agent to make all such
rules and regulations deemed expedient concerning the issue,
transfer and registration of shares of stock.
SECTION 5.3
Notice of Issuance or Transfer.
As required under
Delaware law, within a reasonable time after the issuance or
transfer of uncertificated stock, the corporation shall send or
cause to be sent to the registered owner thereof a written notice
containing the information required to be set forth or stated on
certificates pursuant to Delaware state law or a statement that the
corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so
requests, the powers, designations, preferences and relative
participating, optional or other special rights of each class of
stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or
restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.
SECTION 5.4
Signatures
. The certificates of stock shall be
signed by the Chairman of the Board or the President or a Vice
President and by the
Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary or an
Assistant Treasurer (except that where any such certificate is
signed by a transfer agent and by a registrar, the signatures of any
such Chairman of the Board, President, Vice President, Secretary,
Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or Assistant Treasurer may be
facsimile, engraved or printed), and shall be countersigned and
registered in such manner, if any, as the Board of Directors may by
resolution prescribe. In case any officer or officers who shall
have signed, or whose facsimile signature or signatures shall have
been used on, any such certificate or certificates shall cease to be
such officer or officers of the corporation, whether because of
death, resignation or otherwise, before such certificate or
certificates have been delivered by the corporation, such
certificate or certificates may nevertheless be issued and delivered
as though the person or persons who signed such certificate or
certificates or whose facsimile signature or signatures have been
used thereon had not ceased to be such officer or officers of the
corporation.
SECTION 5.5
Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates
. No shares
of stock in the corporation (whether certificated or uncertificated)
shall be issued in place of any certificate alleged to have been
lost, stolen or destroyed, except upon production of such evidence
of such loss, theft or destruction and upon delivery to the
corporation of a bond of indemnity in such amount, upon such terms
and secured by such surety, as the Board in its discretion may
require.
SECTION 5.6
Stock Records.
A record shall be kept of the
respective names of the persons, firms or corporations owning the
corporations stock whether or not represented by certificates, the
number and class of shares owned thereby, respectively, and the
respective dates thereof, and in case of cancellation, the
respective dates of cancellation.
The Companys Bylaws, as so amended through November 15, 2007, are attached as Exhibit 3 (ii) to
this report and are incorporated by reference into this Item 5.03.
Item 7.01
Regulation FD Disclosure
On November 15, 2007, the Company issued a press release announcing that its Board approved a 12.4%
increase in the quarterly cash dividend on the Companys Class A and Class B Common Stock, from
$0.3025 cents to $0.34 cents per share. As a result, the indicated annual cash dividend will rise
from $1.21 per share to $1.36 per share. Stockholders of record on December 5, 2007 will receive
the cash dividend on January 1, 2008. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to
this current report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein in its entirety by this reference.
This information furnished pursuant to this Item 7.01 (and the related information in
Exhibit 99.1) shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by
reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act,
except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
Exhibit 3 (ii) Bylaws of Brown-Forman Corporation, as amended through November 15, 2007
Exhibit
99.1 Press released, dated November 15, 2007
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused
this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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Brown-Forman Corporation
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(Registrant)
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November 16, 2007
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/s/ Nelea A. Absher
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(Date)
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Nelea A. Absher
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Vice President and Assistant Corporate Secretary
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Exhibit Index
3 (ii) Bylaws of Brown-Forman Corporation, as amended through November 15, 2007
99.1 Press
release, dated November 15, 2007
Exhibit 3 (ii)
BY-LAWS
OF
BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION
AS AMENDED.
ARTICLE I.
STOCKHOLDERS.
SECTION 1.1
Annual Meetings.
The annual meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of
electing directors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly be brought before
the meeting shall be held at such date, time and place either within or without the State of
Delaware as may be designated by resolution of the Board of Directors, but no later than September
30 of each year.
SECTION l.2
Special Meetings.
Special meetings of the stockholders may be held upon call of
a majority of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Chairman of the Board or President (and
shall be called by the Chairman of the Board or the President at the request in writing of
stockholders owning a majority of the outstanding shares of the corporation entitled to vote at the
meeting) at such time and at such place within or without the State of Delaware as shall be fixed
by the call for the meeting, and as may be stated in the notice setting forth such call.
SECTION 1.3
Notice of Meeting; Waiver of Notice.
Notice of the time, place and purpose of
every meeting of stockholders shall be mailed not less than ten (10) nor more than fifty (50) days
next preceding the date of said meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the
meeting, who shall have furnished a written address to the Secretary of the corporation for the
purpose. Notice of any stockholders meeting may be waived in writing by any stockholder entitled
to vote at the meeting. Attendance of a person at a meeting of stockholders shall constitute a
waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the stockholder attends a meeting for the express
purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because
the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the
purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders need be specified in any written
waiver of notice.
SECTION 1.4
Adjournments.
Any meeting of stockholders, annual or special, may adjourn from
time to time to reconvene at the same or some other place, and notice need not be given of any such
adjourned meeting if the time and place thereof are announced at the meeting at which the
adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting the corporation may transact any business which
might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty
days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of
the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.
SECTION 1.5
Quorum.
At each meeting of stockholders, except where otherwise provided by law
or the certificate of incorporation or these by-laws, the holders of a majority of the outstanding
shares of each class of stock entitled to vote at the meeting, present in person or by proxy, shall
constitute a
quorum. In the absence of a quorum the stockholders so present may, by majority vote, adjourn
the meeting from time to time in the manner provided by Section 1.4 of these by-laws until a quorum
shall attend.
SECTION 1.6
Voting.
Each stockholder entitled to vote at any meeting shall have one vote in
person or by proxy for each share of stock held by him which has voting power upon the matter in
question at the time. At all elections of directors, the voting shall be by ballot and a majority
of the votes cast shall elect. Except where a date shall have been fixed as a record date for the
determination of the stockholders entitled to vote as hereinafter provided, no share of stock shall
be voted on at any election of directors which shall have been transferred on the books of the
corporation within twenty (20) days next preceding such election.
SECTION 1.7
Record Date.
The Board of Directors may fix in advance a date, not exceeding
forty (40) days preceding the date of any meeting of stockholders, or the date for the payment of
any dividend or distribution, or the date for the allotment of rights, or the date when any change
or conversion or exchange of capital stock shall go into effect, as a record date for the
determination of the stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, any such meeting, or
entitled to receive payment of any such dividend or distribution, or to any such allotment of
rights, or to exercise the rights in respect of any such change, conversion or exchange of capital
stock, and in such case only such stockholders as shall be stockholders of record on the date so
fixed shall be entitled to notice of, and to vote at such meeting, or to receive payment of such
dividend or distribution, or to receive such allotment of rights, or to exercise such rights, as
the case may be, notwithstanding any transfer of any stock on the books of the corporation after
any such record date fixed as aforesaid.
SECTION 1.8
Organization.
Meetings of stockholders shall be presided over by the Chairman of
the Board, if any, or in his absence by the President, or in their absence by a Vice President, or
in the absence of the foregoing persons, by a chairman chosen at the meeting. The Secretary shall
act as secretary of the meeting but in his absence the chairman of the meeting may appoint any
person to act as secretary of the meeting.
ARTICLE II.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
SECTION 2.1
Number; Qualification.
The Board of Directors of the Corporation shall consist
of not less than three (3) nor more than seventeen (17) persons, who shall hold office until the
Annual Meeting of the Stockholders next ensuing after their election, and until their respective
successors are elected and shall qualify. The number of Directors to serve from time to time shall
be fixed by the Board of Directors subject to being changed by the stockholders at any Annual
Meeting of Stockholders. Directors need not be stockholders. Directors may serve on the Board
during their 70th year, but shall retire thereafter, except that the Board upon a two-thirds vote
(and without the participation of the director concerned) may by special resolution ask a director
to remain on the Board through his or her 72
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year, or until a given date, if it finds
that such service is of significant benefit to the corporation.
SECTION 2.2
Vacancies
. Vacancies in the Board of Directors shall be filled by a majority of
the remaining directors, and the directors so chosen shall hold office until the next annual
election and until their successors shall be duly elected and shall qualify.
SECTION 2.3
Meetings
. Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such place within
or without the State of Delaware as may from time to time be fixed by resolution of the Board or as
may be
specified in the call of any meeting. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be
held at such times as may from time to time be fixed by resolution of the Board, and special
meetings may be held at any time upon call of the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board,
if any, the President or a majority of the Board by telephonic or telegraphic notice duly given to
each director not less than three days before the meeting or written notice sent or mailed to each
director not less than five days before the meeting. Such notice shall state the time and place of
the meeting, but need not specify the purpose thereof. A meeting of the Board may be held without
notice immediately after the annual meeting of stockholders at the same place at which such meeting
is held. Notice need not be given of regular meetings of the Board held at the time fixed by
resolution of the Board. Meetings may be held at any time without notice if all directors are
present or if those not present waive notice of the meeting in writing. At all meetings of the
Board of Directors one-third of the entire Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business and the vote of a majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a
quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors. Meetings of the Board of Directors
shall be presided over by the Chairman of the Board, if any, or in his absence by the President, or
in their absence by a chairman chosen at the meeting and the chairman of the meeting may appoint
any person to act as secretary of the meeting.
SECTION 2.4
Informal Action by Directors.
Any action required or permitted to be taken at
any meeting of the Board of Directors, or of any committee thereof, may be taken without a meeting
if all members of the Board of Directors or of such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto
in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of
Directors or committee.
SECTION.2.5
Executive Committee
. The Board of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions,
passed by a majority of the whole Board, designate an Executive Committee to consist of the Chief
Executive Officer and one or more of the directors as the Board may from time to time determine.
In addition, the Board of Directors may appoint persons who are not directors of the Corporation as
associate non-voting members of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall have and
may exercise, when the Board is not in session, all the powers of the Board of Directors in the
management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and shall have power to authorize the
seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it; but the Executive
Committee shall not have power to fill vacancies in the Board, or to change the membership of or
fill the vacancies on the said Committee, or to make or amend the By-laws of the corporation. The
Board shall have power at any time to change the membership of the Executive Committee, to fill
vacancies in it, or to dissolve it. The Executive Committee may make such rules for the conduct of
its business and may appoint such committees and assistants as it shall from time to time deem
necessary. A majority of the members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum.
SECTION 2.6
Other Committees.
The Board of Directors may by resolution designate one or more
other committees which committees shall have and may exercise such powers as the Board of Directors
shall by resolution provide. Except as provided above in Section 2.5 for the Executive Committee,
attendance by at least 50% of committee members shall constitute a quorum to conduct business.
ARTICLE III.
OFFICERS.
SECTION 3.1
Election
. The Board of Directors, as soon as may be after the election held in
each year, shall choose a Chairman of the Board and/or a President of the corporation, one or more
Vice
Presidents (with such classifications as the Board may determine), a Secretary and a
Treasurer, and may if it so determines choose one or more Vice Chairmen of the Board. The Board of
Directors may also from time to time appoint such Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Treasurers and
such other officers, agents and employees as it may deem proper. The Chairman of the Board, Vice
Chairman of the Board, and the President shall be chosen from among the directors, and the Board of
Directors shall designate either the President or the Chairman of the Board to be the Chief
Executive Officer of the Corporation. Any two or more offices, except that of the Chief Executive
Officer and Secretary, may be held by the same person.
SECTION 3.2
Term; Removal
. The term of office of all officers shall be one year or until
their respective successors are elected and shall qualify; but any officer may be removed from
office at any time by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Board then in
office. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation by death, resignation, removal or
otherwise may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term by the Board of Directors at any
regular or special meeting.
SECTION 3.3
Powers and Duties
. Subject to the limitations as the Board of Directors or the
Executive Committee may from time to time prescribe, the officers of the corporation shall each
have such powers and duties as generally pertain to the respective offices, as well as such powers
and duties as from time to time may be conferred by the Board of Directors or by the Executive
Committee. The Treasurer and the Assistant Treasurers may be required to give bond for the
faithful discharge of their duties, in such sum and with such surety as the Board of Directors may
prescribe.
ARTICLE IV.
FUNDS OF THE CORPORATION.
All moneys of the corporation, or under its charge, deposited in any bank or other place of
deposit, shall be deposited to the credit of the corporation in its corporate name, in such
institutions, and shall be subject to withdrawal upon such signatures, as may from time to time be
prescribed by resolution of the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE V.
CAPITAL STOCK
SECTION 5.1
Certificates.
Shares of the capital stock of the corporation may be certificated
or uncertificated, as provided under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Each
stockholder, upon written request to the transfer agent or the registrar of the corporation, shall
be entitled to a certificate or certificates for shares of stock in such form as the Board of
Directors may from time to time prescribe. Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the
rights and obligations of the holders of uncertificated stock and the rights and obligations of the
holders of certificates representing stock of the same class and series shall be identical. Upon a
holders request, the corporation shall provide evidence of ownership of such holders
uncertificated shares.
SECTION 5.2
Transfer of Stock
. Upon the surrender of any certificate for transfer of stock,
such certificate shall be conspicuously marked on its face Cancelled and filed with the permanent
stock records of the corporation. In order to surrender any certificate for transfer of stock, such
certificate must include an assignment and power of transfer endorsed thereon or attached thereto,
duly executed and with such proof of authenticity of the signature as the corporation or its agents
may reasonably require. Upon the receipt of proper transfer instructions from the registered owner
of uncertificated shares, such uncertificated shares shall be cancelled, issuance of new equivalent
uncertificated shares or certificated shares shall be made to the shareholder entitled thereto and
the transaction shall be recorded upon the books of the corporation. The Board of Directors may
appoint a transfer agent and one or more co-transfer agents and registrar and one or more
co-registrars and may make or authorize such agent to make
all such rules and regulations deemed expedient concerning the issue, transfer and
registration of shares of stock.
SECTION 5.3
Notice of Issuance or Transfer.
As required under Delaware law, within a
reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of uncertificated stock, the corporation shall send
or cause to be sent to the registered owner thereof a written notice containing the information
required to be set forth or stated on certificates pursuant to Delaware state law or a statement
that the corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests, the powers,
designations, preferences and relative participating, optional or other special rights of each
class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such
preferences and/or rights.
SECTION 5.4
Signatures.
The certificates of stock shall be signed by the Chairman of the
Board or the President or a Vice President and by the Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant
Secretary or an Assistant Treasurer (except that where any such certificate is signed by a transfer
agent and by a registrar, the signatures of any such Chairman of the Board, President, Vice
President, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or Assistant Treasurer may be facsimile,
engraved or printed), and shall be countersigned and registered in such manner, if any, as the
Board of Directors may by resolution prescribe. In case any officer or officers who shall have
signed, or whose facsimile signature or signatures shall have been used on, any such certificate or
certificates shall cease to be such officer or officers of the corporation, whether because of
death, resignation or otherwise, before such certificate or certificates have been delivered by the
corporation, such certificate or certificates may nevertheless be issued and delivered as though
the person or persons who signed such certificate or certificates or whose facsimile signature or
signatures have been used thereon had not ceased to be such officer or officers of the corporation.
SECTION 5.5
Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates.
No shares of stock in the corporation
(whether certificated or uncertificated) shall be issued in place of any certificate alleged to
have been lost, stolen or destroyed, except upon production of such evidence of such loss, theft or
destruction and upon delivery to the corporation of a bond of indemnity in such amount, upon such
terms and secured by such surety, as the Board in its discretion may require.
SECTION 5.6
Stock Records.
A record shall be kept of the respective names of the persons,
firms or corporations owning the corporations stock whether or not represented by certificates,
the number and class of shares owned thereby, respectively, and the respective dates thereof, and
in case of cancellation, the respective dates of cancellation.
ARTICLE VI.
CORPORATE BOOKS.
The books of the corporation, except the original or duplicate stock ledger, shall be kept at
the office of the Company at Louisville, Kentucky; or at such other place or places as the Board of
Directors may from time to time designate.
ARTICLE VII.
FISCAL YEAR.
The fiscal year of the corporation shall begin on the 1st day of May in each year and shall
end on the 30th day of April of each year, and may be changed from time to time by resolution of
the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE VIII.
CORPORATE SEAL.
The corporate seal of this Company shall be circular in form and shall bear the name of the
corporation and the words Incorporated Delaware 1933.
ARTICLE IX.
INDEMNITY.
The Board of Directors may by resolution provide that the corporation shall indemnify to the
extent authorized by law any person made or threatened to be made a party to an action or
proceeding, whether criminal, civil, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that
he, his testator or intestate is or was a director, officer or employee of the corporation or
serves or served any other enterprise as a director, officer or employee at the request of the
corporation.
ARTICLE X.
AMENDMENTS.
The By-laws of the corporation, regardless of whether made by the stockholders or by the Board
of Directors, may be amended, added to or repealed at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of
the stockholders, provided notice of the proposed change is given in the notice of the meeting.
CERTIFICATION.
The undersigned, Secretary of BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION, hereby certifies that the foregoing
eight printed pages contain a true and complete copy of the By-laws of said corporation, as amended
from time to time.
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Corporate Secretary
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Brown-Forman Corporation
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Dated: November 15, 2007
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Louisville, Kentucky.
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EMERGENCY BY-LAWS.
ARTICLE I.
These emergency by-laws shall be effective and operative during any emergency resulting from
an attack on the United States or on a locality in which the corporation conducts its business or
customarily holds meetings of its Board of Directors or its stockholders, or during any nuclear or
atomic disaster, or during the existence of any catastrophe, or other similar emergency condition,
as a result of which a quorum of the Board of Directors or a standing committee thereof cannot be
readily convened for action.
ARTICLE II.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
SECTION 1. A meeting of the Board of Directors, or a committee thereof, may be called by any
director or officer by the giving of three (3) days notice only to such of the directors as it may
be feasible to reach at that time and by such means as may be feasible at the time, including
publications and radio. The notice shall state the time and place of the meeting, but need not
specify the purpose thereof.
SECTION 2: A quorum shall consist of any three (3) directors; and in addition to duly elected
directors the officers listed in the following Section 4 hereof shall be eligible as directors to
constitute a quorum.
SECTION 3: To the extent required to constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Board of
Directors, the officers of the corporation who are present shall be deemed, in order of rank and
within the same rank in order of seniority, directors for such meeting. If, within the same rank
two or more officers date of election as such officer is the same, seniority shall be determined
on the basis of length of service with the corporation.
SECTION 4: Persons holding the following offices shall, in the order named, and to the extent
required to provide a quorum at any meeting of the Board of Directors, be deemed directors for such
meeting:
Chairman of the Board
Vice Chairman of the Board
President
Executive Vice President
Senior Vice President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Assistant Vice President
Assistant Secretary
Assistant Treasurer
ARTICLE III.
If, during any such emergency, any officer shall be rendered incapable of discharging his
duties, the authority, duties and functions of such officer shall be assumed by the person next in
line of authority,
as shown on the then currently effective organization chart of the corporation; provided, that
no person assuming the authority, duties and functions of an officer shall be entitled to act as
director, as provider in Article II hereof, unless he shall have been duly elected as an officer or
director.
ARTICLE IV.
The Board of Directors may at any meeting change the head office or designate several
alternative head offices or regional offices of the corporation or authorize officers so to do.
ARTICLE V.
No officer or director or employee acting in accordance with any of the provisions of these
emergency by-laws shall be liable except for willful misconduct.
ARTICLE VI.
To the extent they are not inconsistent with these Emergency By-Laws, the By-Laws of the
corporation shall remain in effect at all times. Upon the termination of the emergency described
in Article I hereof, these Emergency By-Laws shall cease to be operative.