Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 3592D

PZ CUSSONS PLC

26 April 2013

 



TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES i

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii

PZ Cussons 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: iii	The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): iv	See Schedule A
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v	19 April 2013
6. Date on which issuer notified:	22 April 2013
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii	Above 3%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
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 x
			Direct	Direct xi	Indirect xii	Direct	Indirect
Ordinary Shares (ISIN: GB00B19Z1432)	12,847,487	12,847,487			12,867,598		3.0013%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date xiii	Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv	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 xv, xvi
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date xvii	Exercise/ Conversion period xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights xix, xx
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage %of voting rights
12867,598	3.0013%

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

See Schedule A

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:	"See Schedule B"
14. Contact name:
15. Contact telephone number:

PZ Cussons plc

	Number of Shares	Percent of Outstanding
The Capital Group Companies, Inc. (“CG”) holdings	12,867,598	3.001%
Holdings by CG Management Companies and Funds:
Capital Research and Management Company	12,867,598	3.001%

            The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CGC") is the parent company of Capital Research and Managament Company ("CRMC"). CRMC is a U.S- based investment management company that manages the American Funds family of mutual funds. CGC is also the parent company of Capital Group International, Inc. ("CGII"), which in turn is the parent company of five incestment management companies: Capital Guardian Trust Company, Capital International, Inc, Capital International Limited, Capital International Sarl and Capital International K.K.

           Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of your company for its own account. Rather, the shares reported on this Notification are owned by accounts under the discretionary investment management of one or more of the investment management companies described above.

           For the purpose of this Report, the total voting rights figure of 428,725,000 shares was used to calculate the percentage of holdings.

 

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