Result of AGM

Electrocomponents Plc - Annual General Meeting

Electrocomponents Plc announces that each of the resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 24 May 2012 were passed on a show of hands by shareholders at today's Annual General Meeting, including the following resolutions relating to items of special business:

·; Renewal of the Directors' authority to allot shares, such authority to expire on the earlier of the next Annual General Meeting and 30 September 2013;

·; Renewal of Directors' authority to disapply pre-emption rights, such authority to expire on the earlier of the next Annual General Meeting and 30 September 2013;

·; Renewal of the Directors' authority for the purchase by the Company of its own shares, such authority to expire on conclusion of the Company's next Annual General Meeting and 30 September 2013;

·; Authority for the Company to call a general meeting on 14 days' notice;

Withheld votes have not been counted in the calculation of the proportion For or Against a resolution as it is not a vote in law.

Copies of the above have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do 

Details of the proxy votes received in advance of the meeting can be found on the Company's website at http://www.electrocomponents.com/ecm/responsibilities/corpgov/

IAN HASLEGRAVE

Company Secretary

13 July 2012

International Management Centre8050 Oxford Business Park NorthOxford OX4 2HWtel: +44 (0) 1865 204000

fax: +44 (0) 1865 207400

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