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Tate & Lyle PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting 2014
Tate & Lyle PLC (the “Company”) announces that at its Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2014 were duly passed.
The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:
| Resolution | Total For(1) | Total Against | Votes withheld(2) | ||||||||||
| No. of votes | % of vote | No. of votes | % of vote | No. of votes | |||||||||
| 1. | Report and Accounts | 295,387,048 | 99.61 | 1,169,696 | 0.39 | 2,789,229 | |||||||
| 2. | Remuneration Policy | 289,561,233 | 97.87 | 6,296,870 | 2.13 | 2,779,849 | |||||||
| 3. | Remuneration Report | 290,831,905 | 98.79 | 3,572,147 | 1.21 | 4,233,899 | |||||||
| 4. | Approve final dividend | 298,407,249 | 100.00 | 8,099 | 0.00 | 221,956 | |||||||
| 5. | Re-elect Sir Peter Gershon | 294,104,538 | 98.62 | 4,118,591 | 1.38 | 414,174 | |||||||
| 6. | Re-elect Javed Ahmed | 286,415,048 | 95.99 | 11,974,315 | 4.01 | 247,941 | |||||||
| 7. | Re-elect Tim Lodge | 298,282,373 | 99.97 | 104,014 | 0.03 | 250,917 | |||||||
| 8. | Re-elect Liz Airey | 298,272,153 | 99.96 | 122,704 | 0.04 | 242,447 | |||||||
| 9. | Re-elect William Camp | 298,266,235 | 99.96 | 126,192 | 0.04 | 244,877 | |||||||
| 10. | Re-elect Douglas Hurt | 298,300,149 | 99.97 | 92,247 | 0.03 | 244,908 | |||||||
| 11. | Re-elect Virginia Kamsky | 293,916,817 | 99.67 | 963,216 | 0.33 | 3,757,269 | |||||||
| 12. | Re-elect Anne Minto | 298,277,600 | 99.96 | 109,693 | 0.04 | 250,011 | |||||||
| 13. | Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri | 298,207,217 | 99.94 | 180,417 | 0.06 | 249,670 | |||||||
| 14. | Re-elect Robert Walker | 297,842,217 | 99.82 | 545,328 | 0.18 | 249,759 | |||||||
| 15. | Re-appoint auditors | 295,597,750 | 99.64 | 1,063,368 | 0.36 | 2,684,854 | |||||||
| 16. | Approve auditors’ remuneration | 296,487,286 | 99.91 | 280,872 | 0.09 | 2,577,815 | |||||||
| 17. | Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure | 294,462,243 | 98.54 | 4,375,258 | 1.46 | 509,122 | |||||||
| 18. | Authority to allot shares | 290,293,460 | 97.78 | 6,597,324 | 2.22 | 2,455,190 | |||||||
| 19. | Dis-application of pre-emption rights | 297,499,604 | 99.48 | 1,564,845 | 0.52 | 282,175 | |||||||
| 20. | Authority to purchase own shares | 296,425,225 | 99.11 | 2,663,302 | 0.89 | 257,447 | |||||||
| 21. | Notice period for general meetings | 271,438,186 | 90.75 | 27,667,852 | 9.25 | 240,585 | |||||||
(1) Includes discretionary votes.
(2) A ‘vote withheld’ is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a resolution.
On 24 July 2014, there were 467,386,228 ordinary shares in issue (excluding Treasury Shares) and 115 shareholders or persons representing shareholders attended the meeting.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Lucie Gilbert
Company Secretary
24 July 2014
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