Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 6440K

Croda International PLC

26 June 2014

 



TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES i

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii

Croda International Plc

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		P
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(s) subject to the notification obligation: iii	Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, Artisan Investments GP LLC, Artisan Partners Holdings LP, and Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc.
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): iv	State Street Bank, Bank of New York, Mellon Bank, Northern Trust, Fifth Third, JPMorgan Chase, CIBC Mellon, Fidelity, Brown Brothers Harriman, and Bank of America
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v	24 June 2014
6. Date on which issuer notified:	25 June 2014
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii	Above 5%

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
Ordinary Shares of 10p each GB0002335270	6,397,996	4.71%			7,148,755		5.26%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date xiii	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 xix, xx
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
7,148,755	5.26%

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

Artisan Partners Limited Partnership ("APLP"), a U.S. registered investment adviser, is a limited partnership organized under the laws of the State of Delaware. Control of APLP is vested in its general partner, Artisan Investments GP LLC ("Artisan LLC"), a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.  Artisan Partners Holdings LP ("Artisan Holdings") is the sole member of Artisan LLC, and is the sole limited partner of APLP.  Control of Artisan Holdings is vested in its general partner, Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. ("APAM"), organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.  APAM is a publicly traded Company and has in issue three classes of common stock as well as preferred stock.  No single undertaking is now in control of APAM.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:	Artisan Partners Limited Partnership
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:	Number of Croda International Plc ordinary shares in issue, excluding shares held in treasury:  135,781,788
14. Contact name:	Tom Brophy
15. Contact telephone number:	01405 860551

 

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