Result of EGM

WH Smith PLC
20 February 2008


WH Smith PLC: Result of EGM


WH Smith PLC ('WHSmith' or the 'Company') announces that at the EGM held today,
Shareholders approved the Resolutions connected with WHSmith's proposed 67 for
74 Share Consolidation and the renewal of the authority to enable the Company to
continue to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares following the Share
Consolidation.

The Share Consolidation was proposed in the context of a special interim
dividend of 33 pence per share, payable on the Company's Existing Ordinary
Shares immediately prior to the Share Consolidation.   The expected timetable
remains as previously announced.  The Special Dividend is expected to be paid on
29 February 2008 to Shareholders on the Register on 21 February 2008.

Application has been made for 165,009,208 Ordinary Shares of 22 6/67 pence to be
admitted to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to be admitted to
trading on the London Stock Exchange.  It is expected that dealings in the new
shares will commence on 22 February 2008.

Details of the proxies cast on both the Resolutions proposed at the EGM are set
out below:

Ordinary Resolution to approve the Share Consolidation

For                 99.0m
Against             0.1m


Special Resolution to grant a new authority to make market purchases of New
Ordinary Shares

For                 98.9m
Against             0.1m


All definitions used in the Circular to Shareholders dated 31 January 2008 have
the same meaning when used in this announcement.


Date:  20 February 2008



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