---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000014693-22-000080"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BF-A"
cik: "0000014693"
company_name: "BROWN FORMAN CORP"
filed_at: "2022-07-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T06:53:44.021279+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown-Forman declares $0.1885 quarterly dividend; shareholders re-elect directors and approve compensation plan

## Summary
- Quarterly cash dividend of $0.1885 per share (Class A & B) payable Oct 3, 2022 to holders of record Sept 6, 2022.
- Stockholders re-elected all 10 director nominees, including Chair Campbell P. Brown and CEO Lawson E. Whiting.
- Shareholders approved the 2022 Omnibus Compensation Plan and ratified Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2023.
- CEO Whiting reiterated long-term growth algorithm: mid-single digit organic top-line growth, high-single digit organic operating income growth over next decade.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000014693-22-000080
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BF-A
- cik: 0000014693
- company_name: BROWN FORMAN CORP
- filed_at: 2022-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469322000080/0000014693-22-000080-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469322000080/bfb-20220728.htm

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