Result of AGM

Result of AGM

Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting 2012

Tate & Lyle PLC (the “Company”) announces that at its Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the notice of meeting were duly passed.

The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:

Resolution			Â	Total For(1)			Â	Total Against			Â	Votes withheld(2)
				No. of votes	Â	% of vote		No. of votes	Â	% of vote		No. of votes
1.	Â	Report and Accounts		325,981,654		100.00		11,906		0.00		418,342
2.		Remuneration Report		312,826,784		96.20		12,350,477		3.80		644,710
3.		Approve final dividend		325,410,493		100.00		7,861		0.00		403,618
4.		Re-elect Sir Peter Gershon		320,337,422		99.31		2,230,176		0.69		3,254,373
5.		Re-elect Javed Ahmed		315,607,992		97.01		9,730,389		2.99		483,591
6.		Re-elect Tim Lodge		325,265,903		99.98		72,677		0.02		483,392
7.		Re-elect Liz Airey		324,926,413		99.87		407,835		0.13		487,724
8.		Re-elect William Camp		324,911,611		99.87		418,032		0.13		492,329
9.		Re-elect Evert Henkes		321,912,876		99.78		706,895		0.22		3,202,200
10.		Re-elect Douglas Hurt		324,932,199		99.88		399,903		0.12		489,870
11.		Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri		324,912,900		99.87		420,499		0.13		488,573
12.		Re-elect Robert Walker		321,346,856		99.66		1,096,403		0.34		3,378,712
13.		Re-appoint auditors		322,708,340		99.84		510,172		0.16		3,193,389
14.		Approve auditors’ remuneration		325,885,722		99.98		73,650		0.02		452,530
15.		Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure		322,625,309		98.91		3,546,302		1.09		240,291
16.		Approve new Performance Share Plan		319,577,636		98.09		6,214,558		1.91		619,707
17.		Authority to allot shares		310,989,736		97.06		9,422,992		2.94		5,999,174
18.		Dis-application of pre-emption rights		325,492,587		99.89		368,934		0.11		550,381
19.		Authority to purchase own shares		321,599,610		99.55		1,443,738		0.45		3,368,553
20.		Notice period for general meetings		294,600,333		91.58		27,100,829		8.42		4,710,740

⁽¹⁾ Includes discretionary votes.

⁽²⁾ A ‘vote withheld’ is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a resolution.

On 26 July 2012, there were 466,086,201 ordinary shares in issue (excluding Treasury Shares) and 159 shareholders or persons representing shareholders attended the meeting.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

Lucie Gilbert

Deputy Company Secretary

26 July 2012