Result of AGM

Sainsbury(J) PLC
13 July 2004

13 July 2004

Announcement of AGM Poll Results

Following the Annual General Meeting held on 12 July 2004, J Sainsbury plc
announces the results of the poll vote for each resolution as follows:


Annual General Meeting Resolutions numbered             For                    Against             Abstentions
as per Notice of Meeting                           Number         %         Number         %         Number

1    To receive and adopt the Directors' and     1,244,449,636   99.90        1,206,638    0.10         3,857,369
     Auditors' reports and the audited
     accounts for the 52 weeks to 27 March
     2004

2    To approve the Directors' Remuneration        865,151,050   71.40      346,566,638   28.60        37,694,462
     Report for the 52 weeks to 27 March 2004

3    To declare a final dividend of 11.36        1,247,674,102   99.91        1,081,025    0.09           749,225
     pence per ordinary share

4    To elect Justin King as a Director          1,236,744,226   99.68        3,957,323    0.32         8,816,758

5    To re-elect Jamie Dundas as a Director      1,144,507,858   95.24       57,194,179    4.76        47,799,283

6    To re-elect Lord Levene of Portsoken as     1,143,178,312   95.07       59,222,958    4.93        47,095,319
     a Director

7    To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP    1,217,803,470   97.89       26,247,985    2.11         5,446,543
     as Auditors and authorise the Directors
     to agree their remuneration

8    To authorise the Directors to allot         1,218,939,675   97.74       28,140,204    2.26         2,424,463
     shares

9    To authorise the Directors to disapply      1,238,850,852   99.34        8,277,041    0.66         2,363,548
     statutory pre-emption rights

10   To authorise the Company to purchase its    1,245,282,821   99.84        2,006,337    0.16         2,212,661
     own shares





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