Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 7964I

Grafton Group PLC

20 April 2022

 

Standard Form TR-1
Voting rights attached to shares- Article 12(1) of directive 2004/109/EC
Financial instruments - Article 11(3) of the Commission Directive 2007/14/EC[i]

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

Grafton Group PLC

2.  Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

[X]   an acquisition or disposal of voting rights

[ ]   an acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

[ ]  an event changing the breakdown of voting rights

3.  Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation [iii] :

BlackRock, Inc.

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

See Section 9

5.   Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached [v] :

19^th April 2022

6.  Date on which issuer notified:

20^th April 2022

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

Holdings for BlackRock, Inc. gone above 8% and holdings for BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited moved above 5%

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 [vi]		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction[vii][viii]
	Number of Shares[ix]	Number of Voting rights[x]	Number of shares[xi]	Number of voting rights[xii]		% of voting rights
			Direct	Direct[xiii]	Indirect[xiv]	Direct	Indirect
IE00B00MZ448	17,233,426	17,233,426	N/A	N/A	19,547,391	N/A	8.16%
SUBTOTAL A (based on aggregate voting rights)				19,547,391		8.16%

B) Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction[xv]
Type of financial instrument	Expiration Date[xvi]	Exercise/Conversion  Period/ Date[xvii]	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted	% of voting rights
		SUBTOTAL B (in relation to all expiration dates)

Total (A+B)	number of voting rights	% of voting rights
19,547,391	19,547,391	8.16%

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

Each of the following entities, which are wholly owned subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc., hold the following interests in voting rights in their capacity as Investment Manager on behalf of clients:

 

Investment Manager	Voting Rights	%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited	12,820,122	5.35%
BlackRock Fund Advisors	3,122,530	1.30%
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited	1,728,539	0.72%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association	1,441,962	0.60%
BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG	366,648	0.15%
BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited	66,559	0.03%
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited	790	0.00%
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.	241	0.00%

10.  In case of proxy voting: [name of the proxy holder] will cease to hold [number] voting rights as of [date].

11.  Additional information:

Done at 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K. on 20^th April 2022.

 

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