Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 9570U

Kingfisher PLC

01 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:

KINGFISHER 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:	29/06/09
6. Date on which issuer notified:	01/07/09
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	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		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
	121,091,116	121,091,116	15,895,964	15,895,964	99,788,131	0.67	4.23
3319521

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
115,684,095	4.90%

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

Please see the appendix which follows.

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:	Ines Watson Assistant Company Secretary
15. Contact telephone number:	[phone]

  APPENDIX

Name of the Company / Fund		Number of Shares		% of issued share capital
Alliance Capital Management		874,000.00		0.03702
Direct
AXA		4,575,001.00		0.19379
Direct
AXA Colonia Konzern		1,248,048.00		0.05286
Direct
AXA Colonia Konzern		232,000.00		0.00983
Indirect
AXA Financial, Inc		49,546,035.00		2.09866067
Indirect
AXA France		215,000.00		0.01
Indirect
AXA IM UK		3,359,482.00		0.142300241
Direct
AXA IM UK		250,569.00		0.01061355
Indirect
AXA Rosenberg		5,839,433.00		0.247345491
Direct
AXA Rosenberg		49,544,527.00		2.098596794
Indirect
Total Direct		15,895,964		0.67332
Total Indirect		99,788,131		4.22680
TOTAL		115,684,095		4.90012

 

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