Forterra plc

Annual General Meeting 2019 Results

The Annual General Meeting of Forterra plc (the 'Company') was held at the Hilton Hotel, 100 Watering Lane, Collingtree, Northampton, NN4 0XW on Monday 20th May 2019 at 12:00pm.

All of the resolutions were voted upon by a show of hands and were passed by the requisite majority by shareholders.

The full text of each resolution is contained in the notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company's websitewww.forterraplc.co.uk(with each resolution number below corresponding to the resolution number in the notice).

The number of Proxy votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Annual General Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows. The total number of Ordinary shares in issue was 200,442,068 shares.

As previously announced, following the conclusion of the meeting, Justin Atkinson was appointed Chairman of the Board and Katherine Innes Ker was appointed Senior Independent Director. In addition, Vince Niblett was appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee and Justin Atkinson was appointed as Chairman of the Nomination Committee. Katherine Innes Ker remains as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and Divya Seshamani remains as Chairman of the Risk Committee.

Resolution

Votes for

Votes Against

Total Votes Cast (excluding withheld)

Votes Withheld*

No of Shares

% of shares voted

No of Shares

% of shares voted

No of shares

Resolution 1

To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts to 31 December 2018.

162,861,207

100

0

0

162,861,207

958,066

Resolution 2

To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as Auditor.

163,818,790

99.99

483

0.01

163,819,273

0

Resolution 3

To authorise the remuneration of the Auditor

163,818,790

99.99

483

0.01

163,819,273

0

Resolution 4

To declare the final dividend of 7.2 pence per Ordinary Share for the year ended 31 December 2018

163,818,976

99.99

297

0.01

163,819,273

0

Resolution 5

To re-elect Justin Atkinson as a Director

161,932,760

99.17

1,359,654

0.83

163,292,414

526,859

Resolution 6

To re-elect Stephen Harrison as a

Director

163,188,814

99.62

630,166

0.38

163,818,980

293

Resolution

Votes for

Votes Against

Total Votes Cast (excluding withheld)

Votes Withheld*

No of Shares

% of shares voted

No of Shares

% of shares voted

No of shares

Resolution 7

To re-elect Shatish Dasani as a Director

162,826,939

99.39

992,037

0.61

163,818,976

297

Resolution 8

To re-elect Katherine Innes Ker as a Director

162,458,732

99.17

1,359,951

0.83

163,818,683

590

Resolution 9

To re-elect Divya Seshamani as a Director

163,345,948

99.71

472,463

0.29

163,818,411

862

Resolution 10

To re-elect Martin Sutherland as a Director

163,346,810

99.71

472,166

0.29

163,818,976

297

Resolution 11

To re-elect Vince Niblett as a Director

163,818,382

99.98

594

0.01

163,818,976

297

Resolution 12

To approve the Report of the Remuneration Committee (excluding the Remuneration Policy set out on pages 59-65 of the Annual Report)

163,669,728

99.91

149,248

0.09

163,818,976

297

Resolution 13

To authorise the Company to make political donations

158,707,303

97.39

4,261,487

2.61

162,968,790

850,483

Resolution 14

To authorise the Directors to allot share capital

162,773,118

99.36

1,044,969

0.64

163,818,087

1,186

Resolution 15 **

To disapply statutory exemption rights

162,566,893

99.24

1,252,194

0.76

163,819,087

186

Resolution 16 **

To disapply statutory exemption rights

154,903,232

94.56

8,915,855

5.44

163,819,087

186

Resolution 17 **

To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares

162,938,061

99.48

858,797

0.52

163,796,858

22,415

Resolution 18 **

To authorise the Company to hold general meetings (other than an Annual General meeting) with 14 clear days' notice

160,991,815

98.27

2,827,458

1.73

163,819,273

0

In accordance with the requirements of LR 9.6.3 and 9.6.18 copies of Resolutions 15-18 will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism which is locatedathttp://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

Notes:

*Votes 'withheld' are not votes under English law and so have not been included in the calculation of whether a resolution is carried. Percentages have been rounded to two decimal places.

** Special resolution.

For further information contact:

Forterra plc +44 (0)1604 707600

Ben Guyatt, Company Secretary

FTI Consulting:

+44 (0)20 3727 1340

Richard Mountain

Nick Hasell

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