Result of AGM

Molins PLC
24 April 2002



                                   MOLINS PLC

                             Annual General Meeting

             At today's AGM, Peter Byrom, Chairman of Molins, said:

'Trading this year started well and is continuing to meet our expectations.

'We are committed to providing our customers with continued improvements in
products and services. The acquisition in February this year of Arista
Laboratories, an independent smoke constituent analytical facility, was in line
with our strategy of making incremental investments to extend our existing
services. Arista is being integrated into the group and is on track to achieve
significant growth in revenues compared with 2001.

'We have recently launched important new product upgrades in the tobacco
machinery division and plan further new launches over the next few months.

'Despite markets that are still difficult, having structured our packaging
machinery division to balance capacity more closely with demand, the division is
trading ahead of last year and is profitable at current levels of business.

'We continue to evaluate other acquisition and investment opportunities and
remain confident in the future outlook for the company.'



Enquiries:

Molins PLC

Tel: [phone]

Peter Byrom, Chairman

David Cowen, Group Finance Director



Issued by:

Citigate Dewe Rogerson

Tel: [phone]

Margaret George



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