Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 2016U

Burberry Group PLC

11 October 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:

Burberry Group plc

2. Reason for the notification

(please place an X inside the appropriate bracket/s):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights:  YES

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying 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) :

3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:

Massachusetts Financial Services Company

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3) :

MFS invests in securities of the issuer on behalf of its various mutual funds and institutional account clients.

5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):

1 October 2010

6. Date on which issuer notified:

5 October 2010

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

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
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights
GB0031743007	29,606,993	21,930,572

	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Class/type of shares if possible use ISIN CODE	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights
		Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
			20,073,645		4.61%

B: Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/ converted)	% 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 date	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period	No. of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
20,073,645	4.61%

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

Burberry Group PLC - 3174300
Holdings as of 1 October 2010
Entity		Holding	Percentage Held
MFS Investment Management (LUX) SA		1,432,231	0.33%
MFS Investment Management (MFS)		4,980,263	1.14%
MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc. (MFSI)		5,598,509	1.29%
MFS International Ltd. (MIL)		604,443	0.14%
MFS International (U.K.) Limited (MIL U.K.)		4,942,099	1.13%
MFS International Management K.K. (MIM K.K.)		2,516,100	0.58%
Notifiable Interest		20,073,645	4.61%
Shares Outstanding		435,379,252

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:

14. Contact name:

      Kathryn Dickinson, Deputy Company Secretary, Burberry Group plc          

15. Contact telephone number:

      020 3367 3505

 

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