Mr. Alain Benedetti reports

RUSSEL METALS ANNOUNCES 2013 ANNUAL MEETING VOTING RESULTS

Russel Metals Inc. has released voting results from its 2013 annual meeting of shareholders held on May 2, 2013. A total of 34,721,237 common shares were represented at the meeting in person or by proxy, representing 57.09 per cent of the 60,816,440 issued and outstanding common shares as of the record date on March 15, 2013.

Shareholders voted in favour of all items of business, including the election of each nominee director by a substantial majority as shown in the table.

      VOTING RESULTS

Director            Percentage

Alain Benedetti         99.83%
John M. Clark           99.66%
James F. Dinning        97.28%
Anthony F. Griffiths    99.35%
John A. Hanna           99.72%
Brian R. Hedges         99.83%
Alice D. Laberge        99.79%
Lise Lachapelle         99.74%
William M. O'Reilly     99.76%
John R. Tulloch         99.79%

Additionally, the company's advisory "say on pay" resolution received 98.10 per cent votes for.