Holding(s) in Company

Dawnay, Day Carpathian PLC
23 August 2005


23 August 2005

                           Dawnay Day Carpathian PLC

Dawnay, Day Carpathian PLC have been advised by GLG Partners LP that certain
investment funds and clients for which they act as Investment Manager have
bought ordinary shares of Dawnay, Day Carpathian PLC.

These are the details of the holdings:

GLG Financials Fund                                    3,000,000 ordinary shares

GLG Mangousta Fund                                     1,000,000 ordinary shares

GLG European Long-Short Fund                           2,500,000 ordinary shares

Citigroup Orchestra sub-funds SPC                         40,163 ordinary shares

Lyxor/GLG Pan European Equity Fund Limited                68,223 ordinary shares

Sphinx Long/Short Equity Fund SPC                         19,622 ordinary shares

Total:                                                 6,628,008 ordinary shares

Based on shares in issue of 140,010,000 their combined shareholding represents
4.73% of the shares in issue.

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