AGM Statement

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC
30 April 2008

                        BAILLIE GIFFORD SHIN NIPPON PLC

                     Annual General Meeting, 30 April 2008

At the AGM held on 30 April 2008 all resolutions were passed, including those
detailed below:

Special Business

•              Shareholders authorised the Company to renew its share buy back
authority.

Shareholders approved a special resolution renewing the Company's authority to
make market purchases of up to 14.99 per cent of the Company's issued share
capital, being 4,661,964 ordinary shares of 10p.

Such authority will expire at the conclusion of the AGM to be held in 2009, or
on 29 October 2009, whichever is the earlier, unless previously varied, revoked
or renewed.

•        Shareholders approved a special resolution to amend the Company's
Articles of Association to reflect changes to the law relating to directors'
indemnities and the payment of directors' defence costs brought about by the
Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 and the
Companies Act 2006.



•        Shareholders approved a special resolution to amend the Company's
Articles of Association to reflect the provisions of section 175 of the
Companies Act 2006, which relate to conflicts of interest. This amendment will
take effect from 1 October 2008 or such other date on which section 175 of the
Companies Act 2006 comes into force.



A copy of the resolutions passed under special business have been submitted to
the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK
Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility at the address below.

25 Financial Services Authority

The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HS



Tel. no. (0)20 7066 1000



                                                            Baillie Gifford & Co

                                                             Company Secretaries

                                                                   30 April 2008




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