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Dairy Crest Group PLC

14 July 2015

Dairy Crest Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting held on 14 July 2015

Dairy Crest Group plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at One Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.

The votes cast were as follows:

 
             Resolution                        For(1)                  Against          Votes Withheld(2) 
                                       No. of shares        %   No. of shares       % 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------ 
       Receive & adopt Report 
        & Accounts for the 
        year ended 31 March 
 1      2015                              71,493,191    99.91          66,481    0.09             133,470 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Approval of Directors' 
 2      Remuneration Policy**             45,426,747    63.43      26,190,774   36.57              75,621 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Declare final dividend 
        of 15.7 pence per ordinary 
 3      share                             71,650,586   100.00               0       0              42,556 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Re-elect Mark Allen 
 4      as a Director                     71,222,058    99.46         388,270    0.54              82,814 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Re-elect Tom Atherton 
 5      as a Director                     71,311,367    99.59         295,972    0.41              85,803 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Re-elect Stephen Alexander 
 6      as a Director                     71,194,248    99.43         405,905    0.57              92,989 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Re-elect Andrew Carr-Locke 
 7      as a Director                     71,274,776    99.62         269,631    0.38             148,735 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Re-elect Sue Farr as 
 8      a Director                        71,137,455    99.35         466,648    0.65              89,039 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Re-elect Richard Macdonald 
 9      as a Director                     70,684,118    99.73         189,165    0.27             819,859 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Re-appoint Ernst & 
 10     Young LLP as auditors             68,380,994    95.47       3,244,650    4.53              67,498 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Authorise Directors 
        to determine Auditor's 
 11     remuneration                      68,551,002    95.70       3,082,477    4.30              59,663 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Allow general meetings 
        to be called on at 
 12*    least 14 days' notice             64,080,713    89.45       7,557,614   10.55              54,815 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Authorise incurring 
 13     political expenditure             67,628,834    94.45       3,973,351    5.55              90,957 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Authorise allotment 
 14     of equity securities              71,201,475    99.43         409,155    0.57              82,512 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Disapplication of pre-emption 
 15*    rights                            71,493,976    99.82         126,088    0.18              73,078 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------ 
       Authorise Directors 
        to make market purchases 
 16*    of shares of the Company          71,578,800    99.91          65,242    0.09              49,100 
      ------------------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  ------  ------------------

Notes:

   1          The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.

2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.

   3          Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received. 
   4          Voting was conducted by poll.

5 The total number of proxy votes cast was 71,693,142 representing 52.02% of voting capital as at 10 July 2015. At the close of business on 10 July 2015, the issued share capital of the Company was 137,813,751 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).

   6          * Denotes a Special Resolution.

7 **Whilst we note that resolution 2 was passed with a majority of 63%, 37% of the vote was not supportive of the resolution. We intend to write to shareholders to understand the basis of their concerns.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do and also on the Company's website at http://www.dairycrest.co.uk/investors

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

For further enquiries please contact:

Robin Miller, Company Secretary +44 (0)1372 472252

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