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Premier Foods plc

29 April 2014

29 April 2014

Premier Foods plc ('Premier Foods' or the 'Company')

Annual General Meeting 2014

Result of AGM

Premier Foods announces that at the Company's AGM held today all of the resolutions proposed were passed with the required majorities by way of a poll.

The table below shows the votes received for and against the resolutions, representing a total of 72 per cent of the 823,607,761 ordinary shares in issue as at the date of the meeting.

 
 Resolution       For         %       Against      %     Total cast    Votes withheld* 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     1        600,274,893   100.00     17,597     0.00   600,292,490      2,297,567 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     2        592,432,265   99.93     410,277     0.07   592,842,542      9,747,515 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     3        593,707,405   99.05    5,714,208    0.95   599,421,613      3,168,444 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     4        599,491,227   99.77    1,367,367    0.23   600,858,594      1,731,463 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     5        598,310,146   99.58    2,545,217    0.42   600,855,363      1,734,694 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     6        597,934,811   99.53    2,851,054    0.47   600,785,865      1,804,192 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     7        598,884,771   99.67    1,972,061    0.33   600,856,832      1,733,225 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     8        597,632,358   99.48    3,154,101    0.52   600,786,459      1,803,598 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     9        597,705,290   99.48    3,143,002    0.52   600,848,292      1,741,765 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     10       451,647,824   98.61    6,379,455    1.39   458,027,279    144,562,778** 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     11       597,621,919   99.47    3,166,749    0.53   600,788,668      1,801,389 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     12       592,417,950   98.59    8,499,384    1.41   600,917,334      1,672,723 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     13       597,156,828   99.38    3,742,274    0.62   600,899,102      1,690,955 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     14       595,098,991   99.05    5,733,634    0.95   600,832,625      1,757,407 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     15       600,334,353   99.92     497,116     0.08   600,831,469      1,758,588 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     16       599,666,791   99.80    1,222,552    0.20   600,889,343      1,700,714 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     17       567,785,203   94.49    33,139,376   5.51   600,924,579      1,665,477 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------- 
     18       599,076,955   99.72    1,712,051    0.28   600,789,006      1,801,049 
-----------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  ----------------

* A vote withheld is not counted as a vote in law and therefore is not counted in the % of votes "for" or "against" the resolution.

** Includes 142,760,090 shares withheld by Warburg Pincus.

A copy of the resolutions in respect of the special business approved at the AGM will shortly be available for inspection on the UK Listing Authority's National Storage Mechanism at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

The above poll results will also shortly be available on the Company's website: http://www.premierfoods.co.uk/investor-relations/shareholder-information/agm-and-general-meetings.cfm

The items of special business approved at the AGM were:

   Resolution 15    Renewal of power to disapply pre-emption rights. 
   Resolution 17    Approval of notice period for general meetings.

For further information contact:

Andrew McDonald

General Counsel & Company Secretary

Tel: 01727 815850

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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