9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi

The College Retirement Equities Fund ("CREF") hereby informs you that on January 7, 2014, CREF sold 12,167 shares of Tate & Lyle PLC bringing its holdings to 6,725,990 shares. CREF owns these shares through three of its investment accounts, the Global Equities Account, Stock Account and Social Choice Account. It is our understanding the total voting shares outstanding of Tate & Lyle PLC are 465,741,644, bringing CREF's ownership in your company to a 1.444% level.

For your information, CREF is a U.S. based investment company, which is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). CREF has multiple investment accounts, each with separate investment objectives and policies. All assets in the accounts are beneficially owned by CREF, and all the accounts are managed by TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser.

Additionally, affiliates of CREF on January 7, 2014 sold 293,778 shares of Tate & Lyle PLC, bringing the holdings of these affiliates to 11,622,831 shares of Tate & Lyle PLC. These holdings are owned by the TIAA-CREF Funds ("Funds") and TIAA-CREF Life Funds ("Life Funds"), each of which are SEC registered investment companies as well as TIAA Global Equity Income, LLC ("TGEI"). The Funds, Life Funds and TGEI are managed by Teachers Advisors, Inc., an SEC registered investment adviser that is affiliated with TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC. The holdings of these affiliated funds, when aggregated with those of CREF, account to 18,348,821 shares or 3.940% of the outstanding voting shares of your company. Because Teachers Advisors, Inc. and TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC follow the same policies when voting these funds, we are aggregating the holdings for purposes of this letter.

(See Exhibit A attached hereto)



Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC/ Teachers Advisors, Inc.

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease
to hold:

N/A

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold
voting rights:

N/A

13. Additional information:

None

14. Contact name:

Stuart R. Brunet

15. Contact telephone number:

+1 415 882 3711

Listed Company Contact name:

Lucie Gilbert

Company Secretary

020 7257 2100



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