Result of AGM

27 November 2012

  St Ives plc - Result of Annual General Meeting 2012 and Total Voting Rights  

St Ives plc ("the Company") is pleased to announce that all resolutions
proposed at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed on a show
of hands. In total 228 valid proxy cards were received by the registrars voting
on average 81.63 million ordinary shares. This represents 68.12% of the issued
share capital of the Company as at today's date.

The issued share capital of the Company as at 27 November 2012 is 119,826,366
ordinary shares of 10 pence each. Each share carries one vote. The Company does
not hold any shares in treasury. The above figure may be used by shareholders
to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to
their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Service
Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Richard Stillwell, as Chairman of the Company and of the Annual General
Meeting, was appointed as proxy and given instructions on how to vote on the
resolutions before the Meeting today in respect of a maximum of 81,626,958
shares and was appointed proxy and given discretion on how to vote in respect
of a maximum of 649,029 shares. His appointment as proxy and accordingly his
voting rights over these shares lapsed immediately following the Annual General
Meeting.

A summary of all the proxy votes lodged 48 hours prior to the Annual General
Meeting is set out below:

           Resolution               Votes 'For' &     Votes 'Against'    Votes   
                                   'Discretionary'                     'Withheld'
                                                                           #     
                                                                                 
                                      Number       %     Number      %     Number
                                                                                 
Routine business                                                                 
                                                                                 
1.   Report and Accounts 2012     82,283,640  99.99%      3,500  0.01%      6,040
                                                                                 
2.   Directors' Remuneration      73,457,032  98.90%    815,750  1.10%  8,020,398
Report                                                                           
                                                                                 
3.   Dividend                     82,288,140    100%          0  0.00%      5,040
                                                                                 
4.   Re-appoint Auditors          80,977,251  99.68%    262,648  0.32%  1,053,281
                                                                                 
5.   Fix remuneration of Auditors 81,072,384  99.80%    164,675  0.20%  1,056,181
                                                                                 
6. Re-elect Matt Armitage         82,135,459  99.82%    151,424  0.18%      6,297
                                                                                 
7. Re-elect Patrick Martell       82,134,459  99.81%    152,424  0.19%      6,297
                                                                                 
8. Re-elect Lloyd Wigglesworth    82,134,459  99.82%    145,881  0.18%     12,840
                                                                                 
9. Re-elect Mike Butterworth      82,278,451  99.99%      9,288  0.01%      5,441
                                                                                 
10.  Re-elect Richard Stillwell   82,269,152  99.98%     18,188  0.02%      5,840
                                                                                 
11.  Re-elect Tony Stuart         82,268,351  99.98%     13,089  0.02%     11,740
                                                                                 
12.  Elect Helen Stevenson        82,275,751  99.99%      9,288  0.01%      8,141
                                                                                 
Non-routine business                                                             
                                                                                 
13.  Power to allot equity        66,032,430  80.28% 16,222,237 19.72%     38,513
securities pursuant to                                                           
      Section 551 of the                                                         
Companies Act 2006                                                               
                                                                                 
14.  Power to allot equity        66,050,718  80.28% 16,224,763 19.72%     17,699
securities pursuant to                                                           
       Sections 570 and 573 of                                                   
the Companies Act 2006 *                                                         
                                                                                 
15. Authority for Company to      81,893,900  99.62%    310,477  0.38%     88,803
purchase its own ordinary                                                        
      shares pursuant to Section                                                 
693(4) of the Companies                                                          
      Act 2006 *                                                                 
                                                                                 
16. Notice of General Meetings*   79,825,252  97.01%  2,462,688  2.99%      5,240

* passed as a special resolution

# votes `Withheld' have not been included in the proportion of votes cast `For'
& `Discretionary' and `Against'.

Proxy figures will be also disclosed in the investor area of the Company's
website www.st-ives.co.uk. Copies of the resolutions passed under non-routine
business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and in due course
will be available to view at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do by searching using St
Ives plc's code "SIV".

Enquiries:

Philip Harris Telephone: [phone]
Company Secretary

St Ives plc
One Tudor Street
London
EC4Y 0AH