Result of AGM

Result of AGM

Tate & Lyle PLC

Tate & Lyle PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting 2018

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 2018 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.	Â	Report and Accounts		278,367,326		99.46		1,507,803		0.54		283,649
2.		Remuneration Report		251,899,633		91.06		24,742,882		8.94		2,939,939
3.		Approve final dividend		279,574,948		100.00		4,669		0.00		2,838
4.		Re-elect Dr Gerry Murphy		270,119,692		97.46		7,049,115		2.54		2,415,561
5.		Re-elect Nick Hampton		279,291,841		99.90		273,236		0.10		19,292
6.		Re-elect Paul Forman		277,058,420		99.58		1,159,657		0.42		1,366,291
7.		Re-elect Lars Frederiksen		277,612,125		99.30		1,945,112		0.70		27,131
8.		Re-elect Douglas Hurt		278,183,974		99.51		1,374,286		0.49		26,109
9.		Re-elect Anne Minto		277,922,039		99.42		1,633,205		0.58		29,125
10.		Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri		278,607,655		99.66		941,446		0.34		35,268
11.		Re-elect Sybella Stanley		278,987,407		99.89		297,582		0.11		299,380
12.		Appoint Ernst & Young LLP		279,372,541		99.73		745,162		0.27		42,989
13.		Approve auditors’ remuneration		279,844,909		99.90		274,871		0.10		40,912
14.		Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure		271,961,962		97.10		8,118,504		2.90		80,136
15.		Authority to allot shares		260,040,441		92.83		20,071,745		7.17		48,506
16.		Authority to disapply pre-emption rights		269,196,937		96.11		10,885,122		3.89		78,633
17.		Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment		261,741,527		93.52		18,150,350		6.48		268,814
18.		Authority to purchase own shares		278,335,993		99.45		1,531,590		0.55		293,108
19.		Authority in respect of notices for general meetings		260,209,646		92.89		19,917,077		7.11		33,969

⁽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 2018, there were 467,322,424 ordinary shares (excluding Treasury Shares) and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited voting rights) in issue.

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: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Claire-Marie O’Grady

Company Secretary

26 July 2018

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