ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Shepherd Neame’s Ninety-Third Annual General Meeting was held at The Brewery, Faversham on Friday 26 October 2007 at 12.00 noon.

The following resolutions were passed on a show of hands:

The receipt the Annual Report and Accounts and the reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon.
The declaration a Final Dividend upon the “A” and “B” ordinary shares.
The re-election of Mr J B Neame as a Director.
The re-election of Mr K R Littlefair as a Director.
The re-election of Mr G H A Barnes as a Director.
The reappointment of the Auditors and the authorisation of the Directors to fix their remuneration.

In addition the following resolution was passed on a show of hands as a Special Resolution:

That the regulations contained in the document produced to the meeting and signed by the Chairman for the purposes of identification be adopted as the Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for and to the exclusion of the existing Articles of Association.

The undermentioned Requisitioned Resolution was rejected on a show of hands following which a poll was called.

Where resolutions from member(s) of the Company are properly submitted and lodged with the Company at least 1 week before the distribution of AGM documents to members, the Board will ensure that the resolutions, together with any explanatory material (no more than 1000 words in length for each resolution) lodged at the same time by their proposer(s) will be circulated with the meeting papers to the members at no charge.

The results of the poll were:

The following Requisitioned Resolutions were rejected on a show of hands:

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