Burberry Group PLC
13 December 2005
13 December 2005
Burberry Group plc ('the Company') has today received:
(i) a notification from GUS Holdings Limited ('GUS Holdings') pursuant to
Section 198 of the Companies Act 1985 ('the Act') that it no longer
has a notifiable interest (within the meaning of section 199(2) of the
Act) in the ordinary share capital of the Company ('the Ordinary
Shares');
(ii) a notification from GUS plc ('GUS') that it is interested (for the
purposes of Sections 208 and 209 of the Act) in 306,696,704 Ordinary
Shares. That notification identified GUS Holdings as the registered
holder of those shares; and
(iii)a notification from GUS pursuant to Section 198 of the Act that it no
longer has a notifiable interest (within the meaning of section 199
(2) of the Act) in the Ordinary Shares.
The notifications referred to above were made in connection with the demerger of
the GUS group's interest in the Company ('the Demerger') which was approved by
shareholders of the Company and GUS at extraordinary general meetings held
yesterday.
In connection with the Demerger, on 11 December 2005 GUS acquired an interest in
306,696,704 Ordinary Shares (the notifications referred to in paragraphs (i) and
(ii) above relating to this acquisition). Legal title in those shares was
transferred from GUS Holdings to GUS on 12 December 2005. Today GUS distributed
Ordinary Shares to its shareholders under the Demerger by way of a dividend in
specie (the notification referred to in paragraph (iii) above relating to this
distribution).
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