Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 1177T

Merchants Trust PLC

22 September 2010

 



TR-1:               notification of major interests in shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	The Merchants Trust 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
Other: Following the sale of part of the AXA Life Insurance business to Resolution PLC, changes have been made to the direct and indirect holdings.		þ
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:	15/09/2010
6. Date on which issuer notified:	20/09/2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	3%
8. Notified details:

1.  

1.   1.  1.  

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
GB0005800072	3,704,667    3,704,667		756,803	756,803	2,907,864	0.73	2.82%

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion  Period/ Date	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights

Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
3,664,667	3.55%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: Name of the Company / Fund Number of Shares % of issued share capital Direct - AXA IM UK 735,600 0.712698 Indirect - AXA IM UK 2,907,864 2.817330 Direct - Sun Life International (IOM) Ltd 21,203 0.020543 Total Direct 756,803 0.73324 Total Indirect 2,907,864 2.81733 TOTAL 3,664,667 3.55057

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the 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:
14. Contact name:	Kirsten Salt
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7065 1513

 

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