Result of AGM and Total Voting Rights

30 November 2010

  St Ives plc - Result of Annual General Meeting 2010 and Total Voting Rights  

St Ives plc ("the Company") is pleased to announce that all resolutions
proposed at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed on a show
of hands. In total 251 valid proxy cards were received by the registrars voting
on average 86.52 million ordinary shares. This represents 83.45% of the issued
share capital of the Company as at today's date.

The issued share capital of the Company as at 30 November 2010 is 103,679,310
ordinary shares of 10 pence each. Each share carries one vote. The Company does
not hold any shares in treasury. The above figure may be used by shareholders
to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to
their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Service
Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Miles Emley, as Chairman of the Company and of the Annual General Meeting, was
appointed as proxy and given instructions on how to vote on the resolutions
before the Meeting today in respect of a maximum of 99,665,701 shares and was
appointed proxy and given discretion on how to vote in respect of a maximum of
973,371 shares. His appointment as proxy and accordingly his voting rights over
these shares lapsed immediately following the Annual General Meeting.

A summary of all the proxy votes lodged 48 hours prior to the Annual General
Meeting is set out below:

Resolution                         Votes 'For' &     Votes 'Against'     Votes   
                                  'Discretionary'                     'Withheld'#                                                                           Number       %     Number      %     Number
                                                                                 
Routine business                                                                 
                                                                                 
1.  Report and Accounts 2010     87,613,243  99.86%    127,075  0.14%      8,675
                                                                                 
2.  Directors' Remuneration      68,165,495  83.99% 12,989,385 16.01%  6,594,113
    Report                                                                           
                                                                                 
3.  Dividend                     87,743,178 100.00%          0  0.00%      5,815
                                                                                 
4.  Re-appoint Auditors          87,612,543  99.85%    128,830  0.15%      7,620
                                                                                 
5.  Fix remuneration of Auditors 87,733,063  99.99%      8,010  0.01%      7,920
                                                                                 
6.  Re-elect Miles Emley         86,611,404  98.85%  1,010,637  1.15%    126,952
                                                                                 
7.  Re-elect Simon Marquis       87,465,619  99.82%    160,897  0.18%    122,477
                                                                                 
8.  Re-elect Mike Butterworth    87,705,973  99.97%     30,480  0.03%     12,540
                                                                                 
Non-routine business                                                             
                                                                                 
9.  Power to allot equity                                                        
    securities pursuant to           
    Section 551 of the                                                 
    Companies Act 2006           81,803,868  94.79%  4,498,634  5.21%  1,446,491
                                                                                 
10. Power to allot equity                                                        
    securities pursuant to           
    Sections 570 and 573 of the                                                
    Companies Act 2006 *         87,696,704  99.95%     42,669  0.05%      9,620                                        
                                                                                 
11. Authority for Company to                                                     
    purchase its own ordinary                                                        
    shares pursuant to 
    Section 693(4) of the
    Companies Act 2006 *         87,716,884  99.98%     15,994  0.02%     16,115 
                                                                    
12. Approve and adopt a new LTIP 68,386,486  84.00% 13,022,556 16.00%  6,339,951

* passed as a special resolution
# votes `Withheld' have not been included in the proportion of votes cast `For'
  & `Discretionary' and `Against'.

Proxy figures will be also disclosed in the investor area of the Company's
website www.st-ives.co.uk. Copies of the resolutions passed under non-routine
business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and in due course
will be available to view at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do by searching using St
Ives plc's code "SIV".

As previously announced David Best stood down as a director of the Company at
the end of the Annual General Meeting.

Enquiries:

Philip Harris           Telephone: [phone]
Company Secretary

St Ives plc
St Ives House
Lavington Street
London SE1 0NX