Holding(s) in Company
Kerry Group PLC
31 July 2007
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): Kerry Group PLC
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or
boxes):
() 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
(X) notification of existing voting rights under the transitional rules of
the Transparency Directive
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation(iii):
Kerry Co-operative Creameries Ltd
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)(iv):
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or
reached(v): N/A
6. Date on which issuer notified: 30th July 2007
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: See '% of voting rights'
below
8. Notified details:
A) Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares (if Situation previous to the Resulting situation after the triggering transaction(vii)
possible using the ISIN Triggering transaction
CODE) (vi)
Number of Number of Number of Number of voting rights % of voting rights
Shares(viii) Voting shares(x) (xi)
rights(ix)
Direct Direct(xii) Indirect Direct Indirect
(xiii)
12.5c A Ordinary Shares
(IE0004906560) 51,965,759 51,965,759 51,965,759 51,965,759 29.81%
SUBTOTAL A (based on
aggregate voting rights) 51,965,759 51,965,759 51,965,759 51,965,759 29.81%
B) Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction(xiv)
Type of Expiration Exercise/Conversion Number of voting rights that may be % of voting rights
financial Date(xv) Period/ Date(xvi) acquired if the instrument is
instrument exercised/converted
SUBTOTAL B (in relation to all expiration dates)
Total (A+B) Number of voting rights % of voting rights
51,965,759 29.81%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/
or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable(xvii): N/A
10. In case of proxy voting: (name of the proxy holder) will cease to hold
(number) voting rights as of (date).
11. Additional information: N/A
Done at (place) on (date).
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(i) This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and
to be filed with the competent authority.
(ii) Either the full name of the legal entity or another method
for identifying the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and
accurate.
(iii) This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the
natural person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting
rights in the cases
provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h) of Directive 2004/109/EC; (c) all the
parties to the agreement referred to in Article 10 (a) of that Directive, or (d)
the holder
of financial instruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to which
voting rights are attached, as appropriate.
In relation to the transactions referred to in points (b) to (h) of Article 10
of that Directive, the following list is provided as indication of the persons
who should be mentioned:
- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (b) of Article 10 of
that Directive, the natural person or legal entity that acquires the voting
rights and is entitled
to exercise them under the agreement and the natural person or legal entity who
is transferring temporarily for consideration the voting rights;
- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (c) of Article 10 of
that Directive, the natural person or legal entity holding the collateral,
provided the person or
entity controls the voting rights and declares its intention of exercising them,
and natural person or legal entity lodging the collateral under these
conditions;
- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (d) of Article 10 of
that Directive, the natural person or legal entity who has a life interest in
shares if that person
or entity is entitled to exercise the voting rights attached to the shares and
the natural person or legal entity who is disposing of the voting rights when
the life interest is created;
- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (e) of Article 10 of
that Directive, the controlling natural person or legal entity and, provided it
has a notification
duty at an individual level under Article 9, under letters (a) to (d) of Article
10 of that Directive or under a combination of any of those situations, the
controlled undertaking;
- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (f) of Article 10 of
that Directive, the deposit taker of the shares, if he can exercise the voting
rights attached to
the shares deposited with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares
allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion;
- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (g) of Article 10 of
that Directive, the natural person or legal entity that controls the voting
rights;
- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (h) of Article 10 of
that Directive, the proxy holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at his
discretion, and the
shareholder who has given his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to
exercise the voting rights at his discretion.
(iv) Applicable in the cases provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h)
of Directive 2004/109/EC. This should be the full name of the shareholder who is
the
counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in Article 10 of
that Directive unless the holdings of the shareholder would be lower than 5% of
the total number of voting rights.
(v) The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of
an on exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in
the case of
an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an agreement.
The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which the
acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect. For
passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect.
(vi) Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous
notification. In case the situation previous to the triggering transaction was
below 3%, please state 'below 3%'.
(vii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the
notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding,
only that the new holding is below 3%.
For the case provided for in Article 10(a) of Directive 2004/109/EC, there
should be no disclosure of individual holdings per party to the agreement unless
a party individually crosses or reaches an Article 9 threshold. This applies
upon entering into, introducing changes to or terminating an agreement.
(viii) To be used in Member States where applicable.
(ix) Direct and indirect.
(x) To be used in Member States where applicable.
(xi) In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights
attached 'direct holding' and voting rights 'indirect holding', please split the
voting rights
number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns - if there is no
combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank.
(xii) Voting rights attached to shares held by the notifying party
(Article 9 of Directive 2004/109/EC).
(xiii) Voting rights held by the notifying party independently of
any holding of shares (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC).
(xiv) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the
notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding,
only that the new
holding is below 3%.
(xv) Date of maturity/expiration of the financial instrument i.e.
the date when right to acquire shares ends.
(xvi) If the financial instrument has such a period - please specify
this period - for example once every 3 months starting from (date).
(xvii) The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled
undertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification should
also include
the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by each controlled
undertaking, insofar as individually the controlled undertaking holds
3% or more, and
insofar as the notification by the parent undertaking is intended to cover the
notification obligations of the controlled undertaking.
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