Dairy Crest : Result of AGM

Dairy Crest Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2018

Dairy Crest Group plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2018 at One Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.

The votes cast were as follows:

Resolution		VOTES FOR	%	VOTES AGAINST	%
1	Receive & adopt Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2018	85,263,448	99.99	11,732	0.01
2	Approval of Directors' Remuneration Policy	86,559,318	99.70	258,753	0.30
3	Declare final dividend of 16.3 pence per ordinary share	87,424,106	99.99	1,289	0.01
4	Re-elect Mark Allen as a Director	87,192,621	99.75	220,663	0.25
5	Re-elect Tom Atherton as a Director	87,165,395	99.72	248,839	0.28
6	Re-elect Adam Braithwaite as a Director	87,197,836	99.76	207,908	0.24
7	Elect Moni Mannings as a Director	87,367,920	99.95	45,396	0.05
8	Elect John Gibney as a Director	87,395,111	99.98	20,380	0.02
9	Re-elect Stephen Alexander as a Director	86,801,803	99.38	538,188	0.62
10	Re-elect Sue Farr as a Director	87,037,375	99.58	367,649	0.42
11	Re-elect Richard Macdonald as a Director	87,078,794	99.63	326,425	0.37
12	Appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor of the Company	87,387,995	99.97	29,377	0.03
13	Authorise the Directors to determine Deloitte LLP's remuneration	87,390,778	99.96	30,801	0.04
14*	Allow general meetings to be called on at least 14 clear days' notice	85,714,827	98.06	1,698,944	1.94
15	Authorise incurring political expenditure	78,719,902	90.07	8,680,496	9.93
16	Authorise the renewal of the Directors' authority to allot shares	84,863,344	97.09	2,546,795	2.91
17*	Authorise allotment of equity securities and disapply pre-emption rights (1st 5%)	87,328,430	99.90	83,772	0.10
18*	Authorise allotment of equity securities and disapply pre-emption rights (2nd 5%)	85,703,365	98.05	1,708,341	1.95
19*	Authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	86,444,815	98.90	957,375	1.10

Notes:

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

2 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received

3 Voting was conducted by a poll

* Denotes a Special Resolution

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm 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.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

For further enquiries please contact:

Robin Miller, Company Secretary [phone]