Holding(s) in Company
Britvic plc
13 February 2007
TR-1(i): notification of major interests in shares
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|1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying | Britvic PLC |
|issuer of existing shares to which voting | |
|rights are attached(ii): | |
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|2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or |n/a see |
|boxes): |additional |
| |information|
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|An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | |
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|An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result | |
|in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights | |
|are attached | |
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|An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | |
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|3. Full name of person(s) subject to the |Legal & General Group Plc (L&G) |
|notification obligation(iii): | |
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|4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different | n/a |
|from 3.)(iv): | |
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|5. Date of the transaction and date on which | n/a |
|the threshold is crossed or reached(v): | |
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|6. Date on which issuer notified: | 12/02/07 |
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|7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or | Above 3% (L&G) |
|reached: | |
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|8. Notified details: |
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|A: Voting rights attached to shares |
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|Class/ |Situation previous to |Resulting situation after the triggering |
|type of |the Triggering |transaction(1) |
|shares |transaction (1) | |
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|if | | |
|possible+--------+---------------+---------+------------------+---------------+
|using |Number |Number of |Number of|Number of voting |% of voting |
|the ISIN|of |Voting Rights |shares |rights ix |rights |
|CODE |Shares |viii | | | |
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| | | |Direct |Direct x |Indirect|Direct|Indirect|
| | | | | |xi | | |
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|Ord GBP |6,555,073 3.05% |7,690,236|7,690,236| |3.55% | |
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|0.2 |(under S-198 on 25/04/ | | | | | |
| |2006) | | | | | |
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|B: Financial Instruments |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction xii |
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|Type of |Expiration|Exercise/ |Number of voting rights that may|% of |
|financial |date xiii |Conversion |be acquired if the instrument is|voting |
|instrument | |Period/ Date |exercised/ converted. |rights |
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|Total (A+B) |
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|Number of voting rights |% of voting rights |
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| 7,690,236 | 3.55% |
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|9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial |
|instruments are effectively held, if applicable xv: |
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|Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group)
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|Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited |
|(LGIMH) (Direct and Indirect)
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|Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) |
|(LGIM) |
|
Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) (7,690,236-3.55% = LGAS, LGPL & PMC)
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|Legal & General Investment Management L |
|(Holdings) Limited (Direct) (LGIMHD)
Legal & General Insurance Holdings Limited (Direct) (LGIH)
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|Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) |
|Limited (PMC)
Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (LGAS & LGPL)
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Legal & General Pensions Limited (Direct) (LGPL) |
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|Proxy Voting: |
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|10. Name of the proxy holder: |N/A |
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|11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: |N/A |
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|12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: |N/A |
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| 13. Additional | Notification using shares in issue figure of |
| information: | 216,037,795 |
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| | First notification under DTR Sourcebook |
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|14. Contact name: | John Price, Company Secretary, Britvic plc |
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|15. Contact | |
|telephone number: | 01245 261871 |
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Notes to the Forms
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(i) This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and to be filed
with the competent authority.
(ii) Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for identifying
the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and accurate.
(iii) This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the natural
person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights in
the cases provided for in DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h); (c) all the parties to the
agreement referred to in DTR5.2.1 (a), or (d) the holder of financial
instruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to which voting rights are
attached, as appropriate.
In relation to the transactions referred to in points DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h) , the
following list is provided as indication of the persons who should be mentioned:
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (b), the natural person or legal
entity that acquires the voting rights and is entitled to exercise them under
the agreement and the natural person or legal entity who is transferring
temporarily for consideration the voting rights;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR 5.2.1 (c), the natural person or legal
entity holding the collateral, provided the person or entity controls the voting
rights and declares its intention of exercising them, and natural person or
legal entity lodging the collateral under these conditions;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1(d), the natural person or legal
entity who has a life interest in shares if that person or entity is entitled to
exercise the voting rights attached to the shares and the natural person or
legal entity who is disposing of the voting rights when the life interest is
created;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (e), the controlling natural person
or legal entity and, provided it has a notification duty at an individual level
under DTR 5.1, under DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a combination of any of those
situations, the controlled undertaking;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (f), the deposit taker of the
shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the shares deposited
with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares allowing the deposit
taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (g), the natural person or legal
entity that controls the voting rights;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (h), the proxy holder, if he can
exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder who has given
his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise the voting rights
at his discretion.
(iv) Applicable in the cases provided for in DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h). This should
be the full name of the shareholder who is the counterparty to the natural
person or legal entity referred to in DTR5.2 unless the holdings of the
shareholder would be lower than 5% of the total number of voting rights.
(v) The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an on
exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in the
case of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an agreement.
The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which the
acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect. For
passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect.(DEL: :DEL)
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