Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 3864Y

ITE Group PLC

21 December 2010

 



TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:		ITE Group PLC
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			Yes
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached			No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments			No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights			No
Other (please specify):___________________________			No
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):	See additional information under 13.
5. Date of transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	17 December 2010
6. Date on which issuer notified:	20 December 2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Above the threshold of 5%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use 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		Percentage of voting rights
			Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
GB0002520509	N/A	N/A	421,663	421,663	12,203,512	0.170%	4.914%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period	No. of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted.	Percentage 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	No. of voting rights instrument refers to	Percentage of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
12,625,175	5.084%

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

Ameriprise Financial, Inc., which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of Columbia Management Investment Advisers, Columbia Wanger Asset Management, Threadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. and Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, which itself controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd, Threadneedle International Ltd and Threadneedle Pensions Ltd.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of proxy holder:	N/A
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:	Registered Owner Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 05577 515,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 05576 5,400,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 27642 124,663 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 07197 297,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                            A/c 10479 8,500 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 07203 209,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 21667 61,500 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 34789 469,000 Roy Nominees                                      A/c 104450 164,637 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 10491 2,339,758 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 10488 1,646,117 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 10490 1,390,000
14 Contact name:	Stacey Dryburgh, Data Management, Threadneedle Group
15. Contact telephone number:	[phone]

B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable
Full name	Anil Gadhia.
Contact address	ITE Group plc, 105 Salusbury Road, London.  NW6 6RG.
Phone number & email	020 7596 5024; [e-mail]
Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)

 

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