Completion of Sale of EU Sugar Refining Operations

Completion of Sale of EU Sugar Refining Operations

Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle PLC
30 September 2010

Completion of sale of EU sugar refining operations

Tate & Lyle PLC (“Tate & Lyle”) announces that it has completed the sale of its EU Sugar Refining operations to American Sugar Refining, Inc. The signing of a conditional agreement for this disposal was announced on 1 July 2010. The effective date for this transaction is 30 September 2010.

The proceeds of the sale will be used to reduce Tate & Lyle’s net debt.

For more information contact Tate & Lyle PLC:

Chris McLeish, Group VP, Investor and Media Relations
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William Baldwin-Charles, Head of Media Relations
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About Tate & Lyle:

Tate & Lyle is a global provider of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage and other industries, operating from more than 45 production facilities around the world. Through our large-scale, efficient manufacturing plants, we turn raw materials into distinctive, high quality ingredients for our customers. Our ingredients and solutions add taste, texture, nutrition and increased functionality to products that millions of people around the world use or consume every day.

Tate & Lyle’s range of leading branded food ingredients includes SPLENDA^® Sucralose, PROMITOR™ Dietary Fiber and STA-LITE® Polydextrose. Tate & Lyle also produces branded industrial ingredients including Bio-PDO™, Ethylex® and Sta-Lok® paper starches; and staple ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup, ethanol, citric acid and basic starches. In addition to providing a wide range of ingredients our Innovation and Commercial Development Group supports customers by providing product development, technical advice and proprietary consumer insight studies.

Tate & Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.L. American Depositary Receipts trade under TATYY. In the year to 31 March 2010, Tate & Lyle employed 5,666 people in its subsidiaries and joint ventures, and sales totalled £3.6 billion. http://www.tateandlyle.com.

SPLENDA^® is a trademark of McNeil Nutritionals, LLC