Result of AGM

Result of AGM

Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting 2016

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 2016 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		318,545,500		99.93		218,262		0.07		2,468,086
2.		Remuneration Report		295,781,004		93.00		22,275,432		7.00		2,415,721
3.		Approve final dividend		320,285,759		100.00		7,884		0.00		178,514
4.		Re-elect Sir Peter Gershon		308,515,446		96.39		11,554,718		3.61		401,993
5.		Re-elect Javed Ahmed		296,377,187		92.54		23,881,736		7.46		213,234
6.		Re-elect Nick Hampton		314,977,299		98.35		5,290,575		1.65		204,283
7.		Re-elect Liz Airey		320,107,751		99.95		151,206		0.05		213,200
8.		Re-elect William Camp		320,160,345		99.97		100,764		0.03		211,048
9.		Re-elect Paul Forman		318,655,146		99.50		1,599,877		0.50		217,134
10.		Re-elect Lars Frederiksen		318,638,206		99.50		1,603,666		0.50		230,285
11.		Re-elect Douglas Hurt		319,632,069		99.80		625,485		0.20		214,603
12.		Re-elect Anne Minto		307,686,611		96.07		12,575,543		3.93		210,003
13.		Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri		320,143,818		99.97		104,707		0.03		223,632
14.		Re-elect Sybella Stanley		320,171,405		99.98		72,914		0.02		227,838
15.		Re-appoint auditors		313,984,759		97.80		7,053,990		2.20		193,099
16.		Approve auditors’ remuneration		320,545,874		99.85		472,879		0.15		213,095
17.		Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure		296,245,653		93.63		20,149,658		6.37		4,836,537
18.		Authority to allot shares		320,280,291		99.77		723,677		0.23		227,768
19.		Dis-application of pre-emption rights		320,786,279		99.88		372,442		0.12		73,127
20.		Authority to purchase own shares		314,791,603		98.73		4,046,377		1.27		2,393,868
21.		Notice period for general meetings		286,420,223		90.55		29,891,488		9.45		4,920,137

⁽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 21 July 2016, there were 466,659,112 ordinary shares (excluding Treasury Shares) and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited voting rights) in issue; and 79 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

21 July 2016

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