Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 2738W

Wolseley PLC

24 July 2009

 



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:

WOLSELEY 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(s) subject to the notification obligation:	AXA S.A., 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies
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:	20/07/2009
6. Date on which issuer notified:	24/07/2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	10%

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
	25,077,670	25,077,670	1,157,083	1,157,083	27,840,136	0.41	9.81
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B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/  Conversion  Period	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
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
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
28,997,219	10.22%

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

Name of Company / Fund Number of shares % of issued share capital Alliance Capital Management Direct 251,700 0.08868 AXA Direct 541,217 0.19068 AXA Australia Indirect 71,125 0.02506 AXA Financial, Inc Direct 27,466,752 9.67686 AXA France Indirect 258,467 0.09106 AXA IM UK Direct 364,166 0.13 AXA IM UK Indirect 43,792 0.0152 Total Direct 1,157,083 0.40765 Total Indirect 27,840,136 9.80841 Total 28,997,219 10.21607

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:	Kyere Tabiri
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7003 1510

Annex to Notification of Major Interests in Shares

Identification of legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name	AXA S.A and its group of companies
Contact Address	25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris
Phone Number
Other useful information

Identity of the notifier, if applicable
Full name	Kyere Tabiri
Contact Address	7 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7NX, UK
Phone Number	020 7003 1510
Other useful information	AXA IM UK is a 100% direct subsidiary of AXA IM S.A, which is in turn indirectly wholly owned by AXA S.A

Additional Information

 

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