Result of AGM

Result of AGM

Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting 2010 and Scrip Dividend Update

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.

Following approval of the final dividend at the AGM, the Company confirms that 5,731,466 ordinary shares are to be issued as a scrip dividend alternative to receiving a cash dividend, subject to applications to be made to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock Exchange, which will be announced in due course.

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		308,625,533		99.85		463,681		0.15		511,752
2.		Remuneration Report		300,488,039		97.44		7,896,462		2.56		1,196,157
3.		Approve final dividend		308,334,733		99.86		418,469		0.14		827,458
4.		Re-elect Liz Airey		308,758,631		99.92		257,334		0.08		564,695
5.		Re-elect Evert Henkes		308,722,969		99.91		280,191		0.09		577,500
6.		Re-elect Sir Peter Gershon		302,883,243		99.12		2,699,310		0.88		3,998,106
7.		Re-elect Javed Ahmed		305,504,903		98.89		3,416,853		1.11		658,904
8.		Re-elect William Camp		308,752,456		99.92		251,281		0.08		576,923
9.		Re-elect Douglas Hurt		308,761,457		99.92		240,067		0.08		579,136
10.		Re-appoint auditors		308,995,511		99.98		61,093		0.02		544,362
11.		Approve auditors’ remuneration		308,998,937		99.98		53,239		0.02		548,790
12.		Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure		305,386,778		98.94		3,261,783		1.06		952,405
13.		Amendment to the rules of the Performance Share Plan		285,185,926		97.24		8,103,291		2.76		16,311,747
14.		Authority to allot shares		302,652,655		98.73		3,883,570		1.27		3,064,741
15.		Dis-application of pre-emption rights		307,151,768		99.63		1,125,710		0.37		1,323,488
16.		Authority to purchase own shares		308,693,173		99.89		353,534		0.11		554,259
17.		Notice period for general meetings		292,088,222		94.89		15,722,900		5.11		1,789,844
18.		New Articles of Association		308,391,621		99.95		145,154		0.05		1,064,191

⁽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 22 July 2010, there were 460,257,500 ordinary shares in issue (excluding Treasury Shares) and 217 shareholders or persons representing shareholders attended the meeting.

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.2R, two copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority’s Document Viewing Facility which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade25 The North Colonnade
Canary WharfCanary Wharf
London E14 5HSLondon E14 5HS

As previously announced, Robert Walker succeeded Richard Delbridge as the Senior Independent Director at the conclusion of the AGM and Richard Delbridge retired from the Board of Directors.

Lucie Gilbert
Deputy Company SecretaryDeputy Company Secretary
22 July 201022 July 2010