REG-Johnson Matthey PLC: Result of AGM

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Annual General Meeting held on Tuesday 22 July 2008 - Poll Results

Johnson Matthey plc announces that at todays Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed on a poll.
The results of the poll are as follows:

No. RESOLUTION FOR FOR AGAINST AGAINST VOTES WITHHELD**
(%)* (%)*

1 To receive the Annual 140,036,040 99.92 111,214 0.08 47,614
Report and Accounts

2 To receive and approve 137,768,877 99.77 321,461 0.23 2,104,530
the Directors'
Remuneration Report

3 To declare a final 140,185,173 100.00 0 0.00 9,695
dividend

4 To elect Mrs D C 139,542,266 99.55 631,678 0.45 20,924
Thompson

5 To re-elect Mr D W 138,881,249 99.16 1,180,865 0.84 132,754
Morgan

6 To re-elect Mr A M 139,541,752 99.55 630,177 0.45 22,663
Thomson

7 To re-elect Mr R J W 139,537,730 99.55 631,289 0.45 23,317
Walvis

8 To re-appoint KPMG 139,808,422 99.81 259,242 0.19 127,204
Audit Plc as auditors

9 To authorise the 140,061,073 99.92 113,805 0.08 19,990
directors to determine
the remuneration of the
auditors

10 To authorise the 139,172,771 99.41 821,558 0.59 200,539
Company to make
political donations and
incur political
expenditure within
certain limits

11 To authorise the 139,164,293 99.29 1,001,269 0.71 29,306
directors to allot
shares

12 To disapply the 139,592,504 99.67 464,905 0.33 137,459
pre-emption rights
attaching to shares

13 To authorise the 140,145,139 99.98 33,499 0.02 16,230
Company to make market
purchases of its own
shares

14 To adopt new Articles 137,328,774 97.98 2,832,805 2.02 33,289
of Association

* Figures shown are percentages of total votes cast excluding votes withheld.

** 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.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, two copies of all resolutions passed as
special business have been submitted to the Financial Services Authority and
will be available for inspection at the UKLA's Document Viewing Facility which
is situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS

Enquiries to: Angela Purtill, Assistant Company Secretary, Johnson Matthey plc
Telephone: 020 7269 8461

22 July 2008

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