Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle PLC – 16 June 2011

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tate & Lyle PLC (the “Company”) announces the following changes in directors’ interests in ordinary 25p shares (“Shares”) of the Company:

Javed Ahmed, Chief Executive
Mr Ahmed exercised options to acquire 219,467 Shares on 15 June 2011. These options were granted pursuant to “Compensatory Award – B” in accordance with the incentive arrangements relating to the recruitment of Mr Ahmed, as disclosed in the Company’s Annual Report 2009. No consideration was paid for the acquisition of these Shares. Mr Ahmed now has an interest in 830,719 Shares.

As disclosed in the 2009 Annual Report, the performance condition that applied to the Compensatory Award – B was the same as applied to awards made under the Company’s Performance Share Plan in 2008.

Tim Lodge, Chief Financial Officer
5,948 Shares were released under the Company’s Deferred Bonus Share Plan (“DBSP”) to Mr Lodge on 15 June 2011. No consideration was paid for the acquisition of these shares. Mr Lodge now has an interest in 49,711 Shares.

The DBSP is a performance-based share plan that operated until 2008 under which certain senior executives had the opportunity to defer part of their annual cash bonus, invest the amount deferred in the Company’s shares and receive awards of matching shares (“Matching Shares”). The number of Matching Shares released is subject to the satisfaction of employment conditions and a performance condition over the relevant performance period which in this case was the period from 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2011.

This notification is made in accordance with DTR 3.1.4R(1)(a) of the FSA’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Mathew Wootton
Group VP, Investor and Media Relations
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16 June 2011