Notification of Major Interes

RNS Number : 3235U

Carphone Warehouse Group PLC

13 October 2010

RNS Announcement

Wednesday 13 October 2010

For Immediate Release

Carphone Warehouse Group plc ("Company")

Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached	Carphone Warehouse 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 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	Newton Investment Management Ltd.
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached	11/10/2010
6. Date on which issuer notified	12/10/2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Decrease from 5.00% to 4.80%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
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
			Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
[GB00B4Y7R145]	22,862,551	5.00%	N/A	N/A	21,959,404	N/A	4.80%

B. Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of Financial Instrument	Expiration Date	Exercise/Conversion Period/Date	Number of Voting Rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted	% of Voting Rights
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

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	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Nominal	Delta
					N/A	N/A

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

Newton Investment Management Ltd hold these shares as a discretionary investment manager.

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