Holding(s) in Company

Holding(s) in Company

Centrica PLC

5 March 2010

CENTRICA PLC

Notification of Major Interests in Shares

Centrica plc (“the Company”) received notice on 5 March 2010 (under the obligations imposed by Section 5 of the FSA's Disclosure & Transparency Rules), that on 2 March 2010, INVESCO Limited had a notifiable interest in 257,992,339 ordinary shares of 6^14/81 pence each in the Company, representing approximately 5.02% of the Company’s issued share capital.

The voting rights of these shares are held through INVESCO Limited and the interests of INVESCO include interests of its group companies which are shown below:

Registered holder	Â	No. of shares held
Invesco Asset Management GmbH & Invesco GT Management		1,553,508
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Invesco Asset Management Ltd & Invesco ASST MGT IRELAND		1,853,442
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Invesco ASSET MGT LTD & INV ASST MGT JAPAN		498,907
		Â
Invesco ASST MGT (JAPAN) & Invesco Global Asst Mgt (N.A) Inc		8,342
		Â
Invesco ASST MGT JAPAN & INV ADVISERS INC		823,717
		Â
Invesco GT MGT SA-LUX & INV ADVISERS INC		107,434
		Â
Invesco Advisers Inc		33,592,446
		Â
INVESCO ASSET MANAGEMENT (JAPAN) Ltd		11,914
		Â
INVESCO ASSET MANAGEMENT DUBLIN		2,341,223
		Â
INVESCO ASSET MANAGEMENT GmbH (Germany)		100,302
		Â
INVESCO ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED		51,684,994
		Â
INVESCO ASSET MANAGEMENT S.A. (FRANCE)		765,336
		Â
INVESCO GT Management S.A.		26,228
		Â
INVESCO HONG KONG LIMITED		479,003
		Â
INVESCO NAT TRST CO & INV GLOB ASST MGT		2,279,344
		Â
Invesco PowerShares Capital Mgt Irelan		13,609
		Â
Invesoc PowerShares Capital Mgt LLC		99,246
		Â
Invesco Trimark Ltd (CANADA)		37,902
		Â
INVESCO TRIMARK LTD & IINVESCO ADVISERS		2,064,937
		Â
Invesco Fund Managers Limited		152,310,815
		Â
Invesco Advisers Inc (ADR’s)		7,339,690
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		257,992,339

Enquiries:

Luke Thomas

01753 494012