Synthomer PLC — AGM Information 2011

Mar 9, 2011

Notice of meeting

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Manor of Groves Hotel, High Wych, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, CM21 0JU on Thursday 12 May 2011 at 2.30 pm for the following purposes:

Resolutions 12, 13 and 14 will be proposed as special resolutions. All other resolutions will be proposed as ordinary resolutions.

Ordinary business

• 1. To receive and adopt the report of the Directors and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2010.
• 1. To consider the recommendation of the Directors as to a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2010 and if thought fit to declare a final dividend accordingly.
• 1. To approve the report of the Board on Directors' remuneration for the year ended 31 December 2010.
• 1. To re-elect as a director the Hon. A G Catto.
• 1. To re-elect as a director Dato' Lee Hau Hian.
• 1. To re-elect as a director Dr A A Dobbie.
• 1. To re-elect as a director Mr J K Maiden.
• 1. To re-elect as a director Mr D C Blackwood.
• 1. To reappoint Deloitte LLP as auditors of the Company to hold office until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting at which accounts are laid before the Company.
• 1. To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors.

Special business

• 1. To resolve that the authority conferred on the Directors by Article 5.2 of the Company's Articles of Association be renewed for the period ending at the end of the Annual General Meeting in 2012 or on 30 June 2012, whichever is the earlier, and for such period the Section 551 Amount shall be £11,329,358. Such authority shall be in substitution for all previous authorities pursuant to Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006.
• 1. To resolve that subject to the passing of Resolution 11 above, the power conferred on the Directors by Article 5.3 of the Company's Articles be renewed for the period referred to in such Resolution and for such period the Section 561 Amount shall be £1,699,403. Such authority shall be in substitution for all previous powers pursuant to Section 561 of the Companies Act 2006.
• 1. That the Company be unconditionally and generally authorised for the purpose of Section 701 of the Companies Act 2006 ('the Act') to make market purchases (as defined in Section 693(4) of the Act) of ordinary shares of 10p each in the capital of the Company provided that:
• a) the maximum number of shares which may be purchased is 33,988,076;
• b) the minimum price which may be paid for each share is 10p (exclusive of expenses);
• c) the maximum price which may be paid for a share is an amount equal to 105% of the average of the closing middle market quotations of the Company's ordinary shares as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which such share is contracted to be purchased (exclusive of expenses); and
• d) this authority shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or, if earlier, 15 months after the passing of this Resolution (except in relation to the purchase of shares the contract for which was concluded before the expiry of such authority and which might be executed wholly or partly after such expiry) unless such authority is renewed prior to such time.
• 1. That a general meeting other than an Annual General Meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

By order of the Board

R Atkinson

Secretary 9 March 2011

Registered office: Temple Fields Central Road Harlow Essex CM20 2BH

Registered in England and Wales number 98381

Notes to the Notice of meeting

• 1. Members are entitled to appoint a proxy to exercise all or any of their rights to attend and to speak and vote on their behalf at the meeting. A shareholder may appoint more than one proxy in relation to the Annual General Meeting provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by that shareholder. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company. A proxy form which may be used to make such appointment and give proxy instructions accompanies this notice.
• 1. To be valid any proxy form or other instrument appointing a proxy must be received by post or (during normal business hours only) by hand at Computershare Investor Services PLC, The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol, BS99 6ZY or at the electronic address provided in the proxy form, in each case no later than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or any adjourned meeting.
• 1. The return of a completed proxy form, other such instrument or any CREST Proxy Instruction (as described in paragraph 9 below) will not prevent a shareholder attending the Annual General Meeting and voting in person if he/she wishes to do so.
• 1. Any person to whom this notice is sent who is a person nominated under Section 146 of the Companies Act 2006 to enjoy information rights (a 'Nominated Person') may, under an agreement between him/her and the shareholder by whom he/she was nominated, have a right to be appointed (or to have someone else appointed) as a proxy for the Annual General Meeting. If a Nominated Person has no such proxy appointment right or does not wish to exercise it, he/she may, under any such agreement, have a right to give instructions to the shareholder as to the exercise of voting rights.
• 1. The statement of the rights of shareholders in relation to the appointment of proxies in paragraphs 1 and 2 above does not apply to Nominated Persons. The rights described in these paragraphs can only be exercised by shareholders of the Company.
• 1. To be entitled to attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting (and for the purpose of the determination by the Company of the votes they may cast), Shareholders must be registered in the Register of Members of the Company at close of business on Tuesday 10 May 2011 (or, in the event of any adjournment, on the date which is two days before the time of the adjourned meeting). Changes to the Register of Members after the relevant deadline shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend and vote at the meeting.
• 1. The Company's capital consists of 339,880,769 ordinary shares with voting rights.
• 1. CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies through the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so by using the procedures described in the CREST Manual. CREST Personal Members or other CREST sponsored members, and those CREST members who have appointed a service provider(s), should refer to their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s), who will be able to take the appropriate action on their behalf.
• 1. In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made using the CREST service to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a 'CREST Proxy Instruction') must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited's specifications, and must contain the information required for such instruction, as described in the CREST Manual (available via www.euroclear.com/ CREST). The message, regardless of whether it constitutes the appointment of a proxy or is an amendment to the instruction given to a previously appointed proxy must, in order to be valid, be transmitted so as to be received by the issuer's agent (ID 3RA50) by the latest time(s) for the receipt of proxy appointments specified in

Note 2. For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the time stamp applied to the message by the CREST Application Host) from which the issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST. After this time any change of instructions to proxies appointed through CREST should be communicated to the appointee through other means.

• 1. CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service providers should note that Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited does not make available special procedures in CREST for any particular message. Normal system timings and limitations will, therefore, apply in relation to the input of CREST Proxy Instructions. It is the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if the CREST member is a CREST personal member, or sponsored member, or has appointed a voting service provider, to procure that his CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) take(s)) such action as shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection, CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting system providers are referred, in particular, to those sections of the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings.
• 1. The Company may treat as invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in Regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001.
• 1. Any corporation which is a member can appoint one or more corporate representatives who may exercise on its behalf all of its powers as a member provided that they do not do so in relation to the same shares.
• 1. Under Section 527 of the Companies Act 2006 members meeting the threshold requirements set out in that Section have the right to require the company to publish on a website a statement setting out any matter relating to: (i) the audit of the Company's accounts (including the auditor's report and the conduct of the audit) that are to be laid before the Annual General Meeting; or

(ii) any circumstance connected with an auditor of the Company ceasing to hold office since the previous meeting at which annual accounts and reports were laid in accordance with Section 437 of the Companies Act 2006. The Company may not require the shareholders requesting any such website publication to pay its expenses in complying with Sections 527 or 528 of the Companies Act 2006. Where the Company is required to place a statement on a website under Section 527 of the Companies Act 2006, it must forward the statement to the Company's auditor not later than the time when it makes the statement available on the website. The business which may be dealt with at the Annual General Meeting includes any statement that the Company has been required under Section 527 of the Companies Act 2006 to publish on a website.

• 1. Any member attending the meeting has the right to ask questions. The Company must cause to be answered any such question relating to the business being dealt with at the meeting but no such answer need be given if (a) to do so would interfere unduly with the preparation for the meeting or involve the disclosure of confidential information, (b) the answer has already been given on a website in the form of an answer to a question, or (c) it is undesirable in the interests of the company or the good order of the meeting that the question be answered.
• 1. A copy of this notice, and other information required by Section 311A of the Companies Act 2006, can be found at www.yulecatto.com.