Holding in Company

Prudential PLC
16 July 2001


Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1   Name of company:
Prudential plc

2   Name of shareholder having a major interest:
CGNU plc

3   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial
interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that
person's spouse or children under the age of 18:
CGNU plc

4   Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them:
Various CGNU plc  

5   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:
N/A

6   Percentage of issued class:
N/A

7   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:
Additional information 

8   Percentage of issued class:
Additional information

9   Class of security:
Shares of 5p each

10  Date of transaction:
Not known

11  Date company informed:
16 July 2001

12  Total holding following this notification:
58,587,561

13  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
2.94%

14  Contact name for queries:
Jennie Webb

15 Contact telephone number:
020 7548 6027

16  Name of company official responsible for making notification:
Tony Lee
Deputy Group Secretary


17  Date of notification:
16 July 2001


Additional Information:
CGNU plc notified on 16 July 2001 that it ceased to have a notifiable interest
on 12 July 2001. The current holding represents a material interest of 2.94%,
58,197,868 of which are through Morley Fund Management Limited (a CGNU plc
subsidiary) and 389,693 of which is held by Hibernian Investment Managers
Limited.