Result of AGM

Result of AGM

Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting 2011

Tate & Lyle PLC (the “Company”) announces that at its Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the notice of meeting 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.	Report and Accounts		330,316,855		99.41		1,959,338		0.59		2,228,631
2.	Remuneration Report		288,858,042		98.19		5,331,779		1.81		39,728,705
3.	Approve final dividend		331,747,830		100.00		3,546		0.00		2,167,311
4.	Re-elect Sir Peter Gershon		326,369,678		99.38		2,025,862		0.62		5,521,459
5.	Re-elect Javed Ahmed		327,289,872		98.66		4,440,088		1.34		2,187,040
6.	Re-elect Tim Lodge		331,684,146		99.98		52,734		0.02		2,180,120
7.	Re-elect Liz Airey		330,879,014		99.75		842,467		0.25		2,195,519
8.	Re-elect William Camp		331,588,161		99.96		142,732		0.04		2,186,107
9.	Re-elect Evert Henkes		329,380,863		99.75		810,200		0.25		3,725,936
10.	Re-elect Douglas Hurt		323,286,177		97.91		6,894,421		2.09		3,736,401
11.	Re-elect Robert Walker		331,633,456		99.97		91,960		0.03		2,191,584
12.	Re-elect Dr Barry Zoumas		331,636,619		99.97		90,277		0.03		2,190,104
13.	Re-appoint auditors		324,925,200		98.23		5,861,869		1.77		3,717,578
14.	Approve auditors’ remuneration		326,852,584		98.36		5,456,859		1.64		2,193,518
15.	Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure		326,033,580		99.07		3,074,686		0.93		5,396,222
16.	Approve new Sharesave Plan		330,643,630		99.52		1,595,877		0.48		2,264,981
17.	Authority to allot shares		322,089,759		98.10		6,245,275		1.90		6,167,627
18.	Dis-application of pre-emption rights		328,106,091		99.69		1,034,511		0.31		5,362,059
19.	Authority to purchase own shares		332,000,712		99.90		338,404		0.10		2,165,372
20.	Notice period for general meetings		306,543,775		92.24		25,772,389		7.76		2,188,324

⁽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 28 July 2011, there were 467,339,838 ordinary shares in issue (excluding Treasury Shares) and 2,394,000 preference shares in issue. 207 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
Deputy Company Secretary
28 July 2011