Bandt PLC - Result of Tilbury Douglas EGM

RNS No 5286j
BANDT PLC
4 August 1999

Not for release, publication or distribution in or into
the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan

Tilbury Douglas Plc ("Tilbury Douglas")
Result of EGM

Recommended Offer for Bandt plc ("Bandt")

Tilbury Douglas announces that the Extraordinary General
Meeting, notice of which was set out in the circular to
shareholders dated 19 July 1999, was held today, 4 August
1999. The resolutions approving, inter alia, the Offer,
the increase in Tilbury Douglas' authorised share capital
and the Directors' authority to allot Tilbury Douglas
Shares have been duly passed.

Words defined in the Offer Document dated 19 July 1999
have the same meaning in this announcement unless the
context otherwise requires.

Bandt Shareholders are reminded that, in order to accept
the Offer, they should send their completed Forms of
Acceptance so as to be received by no later than 3.00pm
on 9 August 1999.

Enquiries:

Tilbury Douglas
Stuart Lee                                        0118 932 0123

Cazenove & Co.
Nick Wiles                                        0171 588 2828


Cazenove & Co., who are regulated in the United Kingdom
by The Securities and Futures Authority Limited, are
acting for Tilbury Douglas and no one else in connection
with the Offer and will not be responsible to anyone
other than Tilbury Douglas for providing the protections
afforded to customers of Cazenove & Co. or for providing
advice in relation to the Offer or any matter referred to
herein.

The Offer, including the Mix and Match Election, is not
being made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by use
of the mails, or by any means or instrumentality
(including, without limitation, facsimile transmission,
telex or telephone) of interstate or foreign commerce, or
of any facility of a national securities exchange, of the
United States, Canada, Australia or Japan and cannot be
accepted by any such use, means, instrumentality or
facility or from within the United States, Canada,
Australia or Japan.  Accordingly, copies of this
announcement are not being and must not be mailed or
otherwise distributed or sent into or into the United
States, Canada, Australia or Japan.  This announcement is
not an offer of securities for sale in the United States
and the New Tilbury Douglas Shares have not been, and
will not be registered under the United States Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, nor under the laws of any state
of the United States, and the relevant clearances have
not and will not be obtained from the relevant
authorities in Canada, Australia or Japan.  Accordingly,
New Tilbury Douglas Shares may not be offered, sold, or
delivered, directly or indirectly, in or into such
jurisdictions except pursuant to exceptions from
applicable requirements of such jurisdictions.

This announcement has been approved for the purpose of
section 57 of the Financial Services Act 1986 by Cazenove
& Co.

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