Directorate Change

Tate & Lyle PLC
                  

Tate & Lyle Board Appointment

Tate & Lyle PLC announces today that Elisabeth ('Liz') Airey has been appointed
as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 January 2007.

Liz Airey (47) has over twenty years experience in banking, corporate advisory
and finance. She worked from 1990 to 1999 as Finance Director of Monument Oil
and Gas plc until its sale to Lasmo plc. She currently has a portfolio of roles
including as a director at the oil industry specialist corporate finance
boutique, Harrison Lovegrove & Co Limited, as a Non-Executive Director of AMEC
plc and as Chairman of both The JP Morgan European Fledgeling Investment Trust
PLC and Zetex plc, the quoted semiconductor company.

Sir David Lees, Chairman of Tate & Lyle, said 'I am delighted that Liz Airey is
to join the Board as a Non-Executive Director. Her extensive financial and
business management experience will be of great benefit to the Board.'

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About Tate & Lyle: Tate & Lyle is a world leading manufacturer of renewable food
and industrial ingredients. It uses innovative technology to transform corn,
wheat and sugar into value-added ingredients for customers in the food,
beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, paper, packaging and building industries.
The Company is a leader in cereal sweeteners and starches, sugar refining, value
added food and industrial ingredients, and citric acid. Tate & Lyle is the world
number-one in industrial starches and is the sole manufacturer of SPLENDA(R)
Sucralose.

Headquartered in London, Tate & Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange
under the symbol TATE.L. In the US its ADRs trade under TATYY. The Company
operates more than 65 production facilities in 29 countries, throughout Europe,
the Americas and South East Asia. It employs 7,000 people in its subsidiaries
with a further 4,800 employed in joint ventures. Sales in the year to 31 March
2006 totalled £3.7 billion. Additional information can be found on this website
www.tateandlyle.com.

SPLENDA(R) and the SPLENDA(R) logo are trademarks of McNeil Nutritionals, LLC