Result of AGM

29 November 2011

  St Ives plc - Result of Annual General Meeting 2011 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 235 valid proxy cards were received by the registrars voting
on average 90.56 million ordinary shares. This represents 80.77% of the issued
share capital of the Company as at today's date.

The issued share capital of the Company as at 29 November 2011 is 112,111,622
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.

Richard Stillwell, 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 91,247,632
shares and was appointed proxy and given discretion on how to vote in respect
of a maximum of 104,119 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 2011      91,254,218  99.99%      7,700  0.01%      1,000
                                                                                 
2.  Directors' Remuneration       62,175,598  75.37% 20,321,713 24.63%  8,765,607
Report                                                                           
                                                                                 
3.  Dividend                      91,255,218  99.99%      7,700  0.01%          0
                                                                                 
4.  Re-appoint Auditors           91,134,918  99.86%    128,000  0.14%          0
                                                                                 
5.  Fix remuneration of Auditors  90,799,687  99.49%    462,231  0.51%      1,000
                                                                                 
6.  Re-elect Richard Stillwell    90,954,218  99.77%    208,757  0.23%     99,943
                                                                                 
7.  Re-elect Lloyd Wigglesworth   90,973,576  99.68%    289,342  0.32%          0
                                                                                 
8.  Re-elect Tony Stuart          91,237,680  99.98%     20,081  0.02%      5,157
                                                                                 
Non-routine business                                                             
                                                                                 
9.  Power to allot equity         89,620,758  98.41%  1,449,762  1.59%    192,395
securities pursuant to                                                           
     Section 551 of the Companies                                                
Act 2006                                                                         
                                                                                 
10. Power to allot equity         91,219,415  99.96%     39,307  0.04%      4,196
securities pursuant to                                                           
      Sections 570 and 573 of the                                                
Companies Act 2006 *                                                             
                                                                                 
11. Authority for Company to      91,017,968  99.84%    145,007  0.16%     99,943
purchase its own ordinary                                                        
      shares pursuant to Section                                                 
693(4) of the Companies                                                          
      Act 2006 *                                                                 
                                                                                 
12. Notice of General Meetings*   88,493,743  96.97%  2,768,175  3.03%      1,000
                                                                                 
13. Approve and adopt a new       91,252,111  99.99%      3,107  0.01%      7,700
Sharesave Plan                                                                   

* 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".

Enquiries:

Philip Harris Telephone: [phone]

Company Secretary

St Ives plc

One Tudor Street

London

EC4Y 0AH