Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 3612I

Brown (N.) Group PLC

10 March 2010

 



TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:		N Brown Group PLC
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			Yes
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached			No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments			No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights			No
Other (please specify):___________________________			No
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):	See additional information under 13.
5. Date of transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	08 March 2010
6. Date on which issuer notified:	09 March 2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Above the threshold of 5%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use ISIN code	Situation previous to the triggering transaction			Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		Number of shares	Number of voting rights			Percentage of voting rights
				Direct	Direct		Indirect	Direct		Indirect
GB00B1P6ZR11	N/A	N/A	140,000			140,000	13,828,831		0.050%	4.967%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period	No. of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted.	Percentage of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise Price	Expiration date	Exercise / conversion period	No. of voting rights instrument refers to	Percentage of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
13,968,831	5.017%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Ameriprise Financial, Inc., which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of  Threadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. andThreadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, which itself controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd, Threadneedle International Ltd and Threadneedle Pensions Ltd.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of proxy holder:	N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:	N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:	N/A

13. Additional information:	Registered Owner Ameriprise Financial Inc                          A/c 278,679 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 02891 9,000,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 05577 250,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 05576 2,640,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 07197 140,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 10479 5,852 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 07203 123,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 21667 42,300 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 34789 217,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                            A/c 10488 625,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 10490 647,000
14 Contact name:	Company Secretary, Threadneedle group
15. Contact telephone name:	[phone]

Annex: Notification of major interests in shares

A: Identity of the persons or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name (including legal form of legal entities)	Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (a company incorporated in the State of Delaware, USA) and its group
Contact address (registered office for legal entities)	c/o Company Secretary, Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, 60 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8JQ, UK
Phone number & email	[phone]
Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons)

B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable
Full name	Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd
Contact address	The Company Secretary, 60 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8JQ, UK
Phone number & email	[phone]
Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)	UK intermediate holding company of the ultimate parent company

C: Additional information

Philip Harland , Company Secretary, N Brown Group plc 0161 238 2298

 

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