TIDMTATE
Tate & Lyle PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting 2017
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 2017 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 302,726,123 99.31 2,089,093 0.69 31,290
2. Remuneration Policy 295,458,658 97.16 8,622,530 2.84 79,662
3. Remuneration Report 291,846,638 95.98 12,218,602 4.02 95,610
4. Approve final dividend 304,015,599 99.95 138,451 0.05 6,800
5. Elect Dr Gerry Murphy 299,673,979 98.60 4,245,176 1.40 241,695
6. Re-elect Javed Ahmed 293,867,646 96.69 10,061,370 3.31 231,834
7. Re-elect Nick Hampton 302,711,857 99.60 1,214,219 0.40 234,774
8. Re-elect Paul Forman 302,464,741 99.80 602,634 0.20 1,093,475
9. Re-elect Lars Frederiksen 303,352,564 99.81 578,466 0.19 229,820
10. Re-elect Douglas Hurt 303,378,212 99.82 546,673 0.18 235,965
11. Elect Jeanne Johns 303,473,020 99.85 455,277 0.15 232,553
12. Re-elect Anne Minto 300,585,630 98.96 3,147,725 1.04 427,495
13. Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri 303,510,189 99.86 414,685 0.14 235,976
14. Re-elect Sybella Stanley 303,443,183 99.91 288,153 0.09 429,514
15. Re-appoint auditors 289,852,178 95.09 14,957,144 4.91 37,184
16. Approve auditors' remuneration 303,341,934 99.52 1,460,024 0.48 44,548
17. Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure 299,239,720 98.78 3,700,196 1.22 1,906,590
18. Authority to allot shares 292,443,507 96.42 10,864,593 3.58 1,538,406
19. Authority to disapply pre-emption rights 303,361,021 99.54 1,391,929 0.46 93,556
20. Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment 295,417,810 96.94 9,318,520 3.06 110,176
21. Authority to purchase own shares 302,092,984 99.12 2,673,191 0.88 80,331
22. Authority in respect of notices for general meetings 276,953,763 91.34 26,243,307 8.66 1,649,250
(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.
After ten years on the Board, Liz Airey, an independent
Non-Executive Director, did not seek re-election at the AGM and
therefore ceased to be a Director from the conclusion of the
meeting.
On 27 July 2017, there were 465,684,612 ordinary shares
(excluding Treasury Shares) and 2,394,000 preference shares (which
have limited voting rights) in issue.
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:
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Claire-Marie O'GradyCompany Secretary27 July 2017
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