Brown-Forman (BF-B) Financial History

We believe that operating as an independent, family-controlled business currently serves the interests of our stockholders, and we believe the Brown family stockholders share these interests.

A majority of our voting stock is controlled by members of the Brown family, and, collectively, they have the ability to control the outcome of stockholder votes, including the election of all of our directors and the…

We have two classes of common stock.

confidential information; disruptions to our business operations; misappropriation of personal data; and reputational, competitive, or business harm.

As a company with complex IT systems, we have been a target of cyberattacks and other hacking activities in the past, and we expect to continue to be a target in the future.

Our brand names, trademarks, and related intellectual property rights are critical assets, and our business depends on protecting them online and in the countries where we do business.

Various jurisdictions have adopted or may seek to adopt significant additional product labeling or warning requirements or impose limitations on the availability of our products relating to the content or perceived ad…

At the global level, potential changes in tax rules or the interpretation of tax rules arising out of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project initiated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Developmen…

Our business is sensitive to changes in both direct and indirect taxes.

Our products are sold in more than 170 countries; accordingly, we are subject to risks associated with doing business globally, including commercial, political, and financial risks.

Unfavorable publicity, whether accurate or not, related to our industry or to us or our products, brands, marketing, executive leadership, employees, Board of Directors, family stockholders, operations, current or ant…

From time to time, we also consider disposing of assets or businesses that may no longer meet our financial or strategic objectives.

From time to time, we consider acquiring or investing in additional brands or businesses or undertaking other strategic transactions.

International or domestic geopolitical or other events, including the imposition of tariffs or quotas by governmental authorities on any raw materials that we use in the production of our products, could adversely aff…

Higher costs or insufficient availability of suitable grain, agave, water, molasses, oak barrels, glass, closures, and other input materials, or higher associated labor costs or insufficient availability of labor, cou…

Our products use materials and ingredients that we purchase from suppliers.

We believe that new products, line extensions, label and bottle changes, product reformulations, and similar product innovations by both our competitors and us will increase competition in our industry.

The United States has announced and/or implemented significant new tariffs on imported goods from a wide range of countries, which has prompted retaliatory tariffs by a number of countries and a cycle of retaliatory t…

We are subject to risks from changes to the trade policies, tariffs, and import and export regulations of the United States and foreign governments.

Pricing (including price promotions, discounting, couponing, and free goods), marketing, new product introductions, entry into our distribution networks, and other competitive behavior by other suppliers and by wholes…

We use various business models to market and distribute our products in different countries around the world.

could also adversely and disproportionately affect the value of our Class B non-voting common stock to the extent that investors view, or any potential future purchaser of our Company views, the superior voting rights…

As a company with complex IT systems, we have been a target of cyberattacks and other hacking activities in the past, and we expect to continue to be a target in the future.

Various jurisdictions have adopted or may seek to adopt significant additional product labeling or warning requirements or impose limitations on the availability of our products relating to the content or perceived ad…

Negative publicity could affect our business performance.

overhead reductions could temporarily disrupt our other business operations.

Higher costs or insufficient availability of suitable grain, agave, water, molasses, oak barrels, glass, closures, and other input materials, or higher associated labor costs or insufficient availability of labor, cou…

We believe that new products, line extensions, label and bottle changes, product reformulations, and similar product innovations by both our competitors and us will increase competition in our industry.

Unauthorized access or other cyber-related interruptions to our IT infrastructure, or those of our service providers, suppliers, customers, or other direct or indirect business associates, could result in failure of o…

successfully stop counterfeiting or look-alike products, either because the law is inadequate or, even though satisfactory legal options may exist, it may be difficult to obtain and enforce sanctions against counterfe…

side" framework (the package).

Rating agencies routinely evaluate us, basing their ratings on a number of factors, including our cash-generating capability, levels of indebtedness, policies with respect to stockholder distributions, the impact of s…

A downgrade or potential downgrade of our credit ratings could adversely impact our borrowing costs and access to credit and capital markets, which could negatively affect our financial condition.

Social media is also increasingly used to compel companies to express public positions on issues and topics not directly related to their core business, which could prove controversial or divisive to consumers and res…

There has been a marked increase in the use of social media platforms and websites, including blogs, chat and messaging platforms, video-sharing platforms, and other forms of Internet-based communications which allow…

Negative publicity or our inability or failure to recognize, respond to, and effectively manage the increased impact of social media could affect our business performance.

involve significant costs, management distraction, disruption to our business relationships, employee uncertainty, and litigation risk.

Changes to any of our route-to-consumer models or distributors in important markets could result in temporary or longer-term sales disruption, higher costs, and harm to other business relationships we might have with…