Result of AGM

Result of AGM

Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting 2013

Tate & Lyle PLC (the “Company”) announces that at its Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2013 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		300,948,008		99.98		60,803		0.02		5,806,051
2.		Remuneration Report		293,142,434		95.92		12,471,975		4.08		593,308
3.		Approve final dividend		305,678,336		100.00		5,650		0.00		523,732
4.		Re-elect Sir Peter Gershon		299,586,013		98.51		4,518,689		1.49		2,103,015
5.		Re-elect Javed Ahmed		296,319,917		96.96		9,286,459		3.04		601,342
6.		Re-elect Tim Lodge		305,565,769		99.99		44,942		0.01		597,007
7.		Re-elect Liz Airey		305,536,772		99.96		118,025		0.04		552,921
8.		Re-elect William Camp		305,515,173		99.96		131,740		0.04		560,805
9.		Re-elect Douglas Hurt		300,823,840		99.90		299,262		0.10		5,084,615
10.		Re-elect Virginia Kamsky		300,098,712		99.73		813,782		0.27		5,295,223
11.		Re-elect Anne Minto		305,568,460		99.97		81,373		0.03		557,885
12.		Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri		305,558,523		99.97		96,593		0.03		552,602
13.		Re-elect Robert Walker		298,797,033		99.28		2,170,852		0.72		5,239,832
14.		Re-appoint auditors		298,858,650		99.84		491,959		0.16		7,464,252
15.		Approve auditors’ remuneration		303,691,853		99.94		179,363		0.06		2,943,645
16.		Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure		302,889,824		98.84		3,557,088		1.16		367,950
17.		Authority to allot shares		295,930,295		97.87		6,439,229		2.13		4,445,338
18.		Dis-application of pre-emption rights		305,195,613		99.69		962,131		0.31		657,118
19.		Authority to purchase own shares		297,315,418		98.54		4,417,092		1.46		5,082,351
20.		Amendment to limit of directors’ fees		299,340,116		99.62		1,132,047		0.38		5,735,554
21.		Notice period for general meetings		284,983,135		93.05		21,285,498		6.95		544,784

⁽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 24 July 2013, there were 466,378,765 ordinary shares in issue (excluding Treasury Shares) and 146 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
Company Secretary

24 July 2013