Holding(s) in Company
TR-1: Notification of Major Interests in Shares
1. Identity of the Rolls-Royce Group Plc
issuer or the underlying
issuer of existing
shares to which voting
rights are attached
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the
appropriate box or boxes)
An acquisition or disposal of voting
rights
An acquisition or disposal of financial
instruments which may result in the
acquisition of shares already issued to
which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting
rights
Other (please specify): Revised due to
DTR rules - see Section 13
3. Full name of person Fidelity International
(s) subject to the Limited (FIL)
notification obligation
4. Full name of See attached
shareholder(s) (if schedule
different from 3.)
5. Date of the Revised due to DTR
transaction (and date rules
on which the threshold
is crossed or reached
if different)
6. Date on which issuer 22 March 2007
notified
7. Threshold(s) that is N/A
/are crossed or
reached:
8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of Situation previous to Resulting situation after the triggering
shares the Triggering transaction
transaction
If possible
using the ISIN Number of Number of Number Number of Voting % of Voting
CODE Shares Voting of Rights Rights
Rights Shares
Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
ISIN 59,749,683 59,749,683 59,749,683 3.30%
GB0032836487
B. Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of Expiration Exercise/ Number of Voting % of Voting
Financial Date Conversion Period Rights that may Rights
Instrument /Date be acquired if
the instrument is
exercised/
converted
Total (A+B)
Number of Voting Rights % of Voting Rights
59,749,683 3.30%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or
the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable
See attached schedule
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder: Fidelity International
Limited (FIL)
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease N/A
/acquire to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease/acquire N/A
to hold voting rights:
13. Additional information: As discussed with the FSA, prior to the
implementation of the EU Transparency
Directive, we aggregated the interests in
shares of FMR Corp (FMR) and Fidelity
International Limited (FIL) together for the
purposes of shareholder reporting. According
to the new DTR rules we are now reporting the
indirect holdings of FMR and FIL separately. A
separate notification is being submitted for
FMR Corp. Please note these holdings are
correct as of close of business 20 March 2007
14. Contact Name Laura Cotterell
15. Contact: fil-regulatoryreporting@uk.fid-intl.com
FIL
Issuer name: ROLLS-ROYCE GROUP PLC
Current ownership 3.30%
percentage:
Total shares held: 59,749,683
Issued share capital: 1,805,674,972
SHARES HELD NOMINEE MANAGEMENT
COMPANY
Fidelity International 99,512 STATE STREET HONG KONG FIA(K)L
Limited (FIL) is the
parent holding company
for various direct and 157,900 STATE STR BK AND TR CO LNDN FPM
indirect subsidiaries, (S
including Fidelity
Fund Management
Limited (FFML), 114,115 STATE STR BK AND TR CO LNDN FIL
Fidelity Investment (S
Services Ltd
(FISL), Fidelity 1,870,331 NORTHERN TRUST LONDON FPM
Gestion (FIGEST),
Fidelity
429,468 NORTHERN TRUST LONDON FIL
Investments Advisory
(Korea) Limited
(FIAKL), Fidelity 45,700 NORDDEUTSCHE LANDERSBANK FIL
Investments Management
(Hong Kong) Limited
(FIMHK), Fidelity 102,200 NOMURA TRUST AND BANKING FIJ
Pension Management
(FPM), Fidelity 432,751 MELLON BANK FPM
Investments Japan
(FIJ) and Fidelity
Investments 321,400 MASTER TRUST BANK OF JAPAN FIJ
International (FII),
investment managers
for various non-US 682,693 JPMORGAN BOURNEMOUTH FIL
investment companies
and
1,671,800 JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH FPM
institutional clients.
14,681,310 JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH FISL
6,430,702 JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH FIL
1,494,300 JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH FII
371,100 HSBC BANK PLC FPM
29,723 DEXIA PRIVATBANK FPM
57,027 CHASE MANHTTN BK AG FRNKFRT FPM
(S
25,344,141 BROWN BROS HARRIMN LTD LUX FIL
1,698,700 BNP PARIBAS, PARIS FIGEST
258,578 BERMUDA TRUST FAR EAST HK FIM HK
2,759,187 BANK OF NEW YORK EUROPE LDN FII
697,045 BANK OF NEW YORK BRUSSELS FPM