For immediate release 10 June 2016

Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc ('Morrisons' or the 'Company')

AGM announcement

Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held on 9 June 2016 at Hilmore House, Gain Lane, Bradford, BD3 7DL, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 6 May 2016) was proposed and passed by the appropriate majority on a poll.

Accordingly, the following matters were approved:

1. The Report and Accounts for the 52 weeks ended 31 January 2016 were approved and adopted;

2. The Directors' Remuneration Report was approved;

3. The final dividend of 3.5p per ordinary share was approved;

4. Rooney Anand, Neil Davidson, Irwin Lee, Belinda Richards and Paula Vennells were each appointed to the Board;

5. Andrew Higginson, David Potts and Trevor Strain were each reappointed to the Board;

6. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP were reappointed as auditors;

7. The Directors were authorised to fix the auditors' remuneration;

8. The Directors were authorised to make market purchases by the Company of its own shares;

9. The Directors were granted allotment authorities in respect of up to £77,839,219 of the Company's capital and allotment authorities for cash on a non pre-emptive basis in respect of up to £11,675,882 of the Company's capital; and

10. The arrangements for holding General Meetings were approved in the manner set out in the notice of meeting.

The poll votes on each resolution were as follows:

RESOLUTIONS

FOR

%age FOR

AGAINST

%age AGAINST

WITHHELD

TOTAL

1. Approval of Strategic Report, Directors' Report and Audited Financial Statements

1,700,462,100

100.00

70,929

0.00

1,500,555

1,702,033,584

2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the 52 weeks ended 31 Jan 2016

1,371,795,348

83.04

280,146,204

16.96

50,092,032

1,702,033,584

3. To declare a final dividend

1,700,691,096

100.00

80,568

0.00

1,261,920

1,702,033,584

4. To re-elect Andrew Higginson

1,675,117,379

98.50

25,481,541

1.50

1,434,664

1,702,033,584

5. To re-elect David Potts

1,688,864,116

99.31

11,740,114

0.69

1,429,354

1,702,033,584

6. To re-elect Trevor Strain

1,688,673,171

99.30

11,868,801

0.70

1,491,611

1,702,033,583

7. To elect Rooney Anand

1,698,270,600

99.87

2,286,469

0.13

1,476,515

1,702,033,584

8. To elect Neil Davidson

1,690,266,367

99.40

10,229,912

0.60

1,536,518

1,702,032,797

9. To elect Irwin Lee

1,688,932,180

99.32

11,580,678

0.68

1,520,726

1,702,033,584

10.To elect Belinda Richards

1,690,020,657

99.38

10,480,228

0.62

1,532,699

1,702,033,584

11. To elect Paula Vennells

1,689,278,326

99.34

11,187,732

0.66

1,567,526

1,702,033,584

12. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company

1,601,063,761

95.01

84,163,161

4.99

16,806,662

1,702,033,584

13. To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors

1,613,291,831

95.75

71,687,895

4.25

17,053,858

1,702,033,584

14. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of the Company's shares pursuant to s.701 of the Companies Act 2006

1,683,367,086

98.99

17,197,139

1.01

1,469,359

1,702,033,584

15. To authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to s.551 of the Companies Act 2006

1,466,364,415

86.23

234,091,000

13.77

1,578,169

1,702,033,584

16. To authorise the Directors to allot securities otherwise than in accordance with s.561 of the Companies Act 2006

1,611,331,110

94.70

90,164,483

5.30

537,991

1,702,033,584

17. To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings) to be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

1,517,172,847

89.21

183,518,799

10.79

1,341,149

1,702,032,795

Resolutions 1 to 13 and Resolution 15 were ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 14, 16 and 17 were special resolutions.

Votes 'For' include votes at the discretion of the Chairman. Votes withheld are not counted in the count of the total votes or the calculations of the percentages For or Against each resolution. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places. Total shares in issue at the time of the meeting were 2,335,203,487.

A copy of resolutions 14 to 17 (as set out in the notice of Annual General Meeting), being the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting not concerning ordinary business, will be submitted today to the Financial Conduct Authority's national storage mechanism.

Mark Amsden

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc

Tel: 0845 611 6902

Registered Office:

Hilmore House

Gain Lane

Bradford

BD3 7DL

Company Number: 358949

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