Result of AGM

Result of AGM

Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting 2014

Tate & Lyle PLC (the “Company”) announces that at its Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2014 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)
			Â	No. of votes	Â	% of vote	Â	No. of votes	Â	% of vote	Â	No. of votes
1.	Â	Report and Accounts	Â	295,387,048	Â	99.61	Â	1,169,696	Â	0.39	Â	2,789,229
2.	Â	Remuneration Policy	Â	289,561,233	Â	97.87	Â	6,296,870	Â	2.13	Â	2,779,849
3.	Â	Remuneration Report	Â	290,831,905	Â	98.79	Â	3,572,147	Â	1.21	Â	4,233,899
4.	Â	Approve final dividend	Â	298,407,249	Â	100.00	Â	8,099	Â	0.00	Â	221,956
5.	Â	Re-elect Sir Peter Gershon	Â	294,104,538	Â	98.62	Â	4,118,591	Â	1.38	Â	414,174
6.	Â	Re-elect Javed Ahmed	Â	286,415,048	Â	95.99	Â	11,974,315	Â	4.01	Â	247,941
7.	Â	Re-elect Tim Lodge	Â	298,282,373	Â	99.97	Â	104,014	Â	0.03	Â	250,917
8.	Â	Re-elect Liz Airey	Â	298,272,153	Â	99.96	Â	122,704	Â	0.04	Â	242,447
9.	Â	Re-elect William Camp	Â	298,266,235	Â	99.96	Â	126,192	Â	0.04	Â	244,877
10.	Â	Re-elect Douglas Hurt	Â	298,300,149	Â	99.97	Â	92,247	Â	0.03	Â	244,908
11.	Â	Re-elect Virginia Kamsky	Â	293,916,817	Â	99.67	Â	963,216	Â	0.33	Â	3,757,269
12.	Â	Re-elect Anne Minto	Â	298,277,600	Â	99.96	Â	109,693	Â	0.04	Â	250,011
13.	Â	Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri	Â	298,207,217	Â	99.94	Â	180,417	Â	0.06	Â	249,670
14.	Â	Re-elect Robert Walker	Â	297,842,217	Â	99.82	Â	545,328	Â	0.18	Â	249,759
15.	Â	Re-appoint auditors	Â	295,597,750	Â	99.64	Â	1,063,368	Â	0.36	Â	2,684,854
16.	Â	Approve auditors’ remuneration	Â	296,487,286	Â	99.91	Â	280,872	Â	0.09	Â	2,577,815
17.	Â	Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure	Â	294,462,243	Â	98.54	Â	4,375,258	Â	1.46	Â	509,122
18.	Â	Authority to allot shares	Â	290,293,460	Â	97.78	Â	6,597,324	Â	2.22	Â	2,455,190
19.	Â	Dis-application of pre-emption rights	Â	297,499,604	Â	99.48	Â	1,564,845	Â	0.52	Â	282,175
20.	Â	Authority to purchase own shares	Â	296,425,225	Â	99.11	Â	2,663,302	Â	0.89	Â	257,447
21.	Â	Notice period for general meetings	Â	271,438,186	Â	90.75	Â	27,667,852	Â	9.25	Â	240,585

⁽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 24 July 2014, there were 467,386,228 ordinary shares in issue (excluding Treasury Shares) and 115 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

Company Secretary

24 July 2014