Result of AGM

St Ives plc - Annual General Meeting 2006

St Ives plc is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at the Annual
General Meeting held earlier today were passed on a show of hands.

In accordance with section 9.6 of the UK Listing Authority Listing Rules two
copies of the resolutions passed under special business (resolutions 10 to 12)
have been forwarded to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available
for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing facility, which
is situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London E14 5HS
Telephone: [phone]


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

                                                                            
                                  Votes 'For' &                     Votes   
          Resolution             'Discretionary'  Votes 'Against' 'Withheld'
                                                                            
                                    Number      %    Number     %           
                                                                            
1. Report and Accounts 2006     70,549,312 99.78%   156,546 0.22%     87,256
                                                                            
2. Directors' Remuneration      67,543,069 96.51% 2,444,983 3.49%    805,062
Report                                                                      
                                                                            
3. Final Dividend               70,742,306 99.93%    50,808 0.07%          0
                                                                            
4. Re-appoint Auditors          70,393,811 99.44%   398,923 0.56%        380
                                                                            
5. Fix remuneration of Auditors 69,410,272 99.43%   399,253 0.57%    983,589
                                                                            
6. Re-elect Patrick Martell     70,423,933 99.48%   365,657 0.52%      3,524
                                                                            
7. Re-elect David Wilbraham     70,232,950 99.42%   409,668 0.58%    150,496
                                                                            
8. Elect David Best             70,419,819 99.48%   368,649 0.52%      4,646
                                                                            
9. Elect Richard Stillwell      70,420,719 99.48%   367,749 0.52%      4,646
                                                                            
10. Authority for the directors 68,889,201 97.48% 1,778,309 2.52%    125,604
to allot ordinary shares                                                    
                                                                            
11. Partial disapplication of   69,070,358 97.74% 1,595,930 2.26%    126,826
pre-emption rights                                                          
                                                                            
12. Authority for Company to    70,659,693 99.99%     7,497 0.01%    125,924
purchase its own ordinary                                                   
       shares                                                               

In total 271 proxy cards have been received by the registrars voting on average
70.59 million ordinary shares.
This represents 68.17% of the issued share capital of the Company as at today's
date.

The issued share capital of St Ives plc as at 4 December 2006 is 103,551,005
ordinary shares of 10 pence.

Votes `Withheld' have not been included in the proportion of votes cast `For' &
`Discretionary' and `Against'.

A full summary of proxy votes can be obtained from the Company Secretary:

Company Secretary
St Ives plc
St Ives House
Lavington Street
London SE1 0NX
Telephone: [phone]

Enquiries:

Philip Harris
Company Secretary
Telephone: [phone]
4 December 2006