Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 5942O

Guinness Peat Group PLC

07 August 2014

 





TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached :11		Guinness Peat Group plc
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			X
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):
3.Full name of person( ) subject to the notification obligation: 111	Orbis Holdings Limited (parent) Allan Gray Australia Pty Limited (investment manager and controlled undertaking)
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):1v	Citibank N.A ANZ Nomi nees Ltd JP Morgan Nominees Australia Ltd NAB Custodian Services JP Morgan Nominees Australia Ltd HSBC Custody Nom inees (Australia) Ltd NAB Custodian Services
5.Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v	5 August 2014
6.Date on which issuer notified:	6 August 2014
7.Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	5% and 6%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
Class/type of shares if possible using the 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		% of  voting rights x
			Direct	Direct xi	Indirect xii	Direct	Indirect
GBOOB4YZN328	56,422,124	56,422,124			88, 157,848		6.26%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expira..tion date XI II	Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	%of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying  Financial Instruments XV, XVI
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date XVII	Exercise/ Conversion period xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	%of voting rights xlx. XX
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
88,157,848	6.26%

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

Allan Gray Australia Pty Limited (investment manager and controlled undertaking) is a controlled undertaking of OrbisHoldings Limited.

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13.Additional information:
14.Contact name:	Yee-Ling Wan, Legal Counsel
15.Contact telephone number:	[phone]

 

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