Holding(s) in Company
Rank Group PLC
29 July 2004
SCHEDULE 10
NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES
1) NAME OF COMPANY
THE RANK GROUP PLC
2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST
FMR CORP
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL LTD
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
NOTIFIABLE INTEREST OF COMPANIES IN (2) ABOVE AND THEIR SUBSIDIARIES
4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them.
SEE LETTER BELOW
5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.
6) Percentage of issued Class
7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed
8) Percentage of issued Class
9) Class of security
ORDINARY SHARES
10) Date of transaction
29 JULY 2004
11) Date company informed
29 JULY 2004
12) Total holding following this notification
78,262,246
13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification
13.02%
14) Any additional information
15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries
CLARE DUFFILL
ASSISTANT COMPANY SECRETARY
TEL: 020 7706 1111
16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification
Date of Notification 29 JULY 2004
Letter to: Rank Group PLC
Dated: 29 July 2004
Amendment #11
NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- U.K. COMPANIES ACT
1. Company in which shares are held: RANK GROUP PLC
2. Notifiable Interest: ORDINARY SHARES
(A) FMR Corp
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109
Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company
(FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds and Fidelity
Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which
acts as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust
accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders
and their holdings).
(B) Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
P.O. BOX HM 670
Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda
Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL) and Fidelity
Pension Management (FPM), investment managers for various non-US
investment companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for
listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings).
3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of
Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109
A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited.
4. The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized
unit trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from
reporting pursuant to Section 209(1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.
5. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for
the purposes of clarity and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to
indicate that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries,
Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
or Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of
the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these
notifications on a joint basis.
6. The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4)(b) of the Act,
namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled
to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to
control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act
respectively.
SCHEDULE A
SECURITY: RANK GROUP PLC Amendment # 11
SHARES HELD MANAGEMENT NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME
COMPANY
(Ordinary Shares)
560,400 Bank of New York Brussels
2,513,023 Bank of New York London
177,600 Bank of New York Brussels
549,444 Brown Brothers Harriman
8,800 Brown Brothers Harriman Ltd. LUX
121,800 Chase Manhattan Bank AG Frankfurt
5,433,706 Chase Manhattan Bank London
126,700 Chase Nominees Ltd
27,900 Citibank
160,000 Deutsche Bank
232,000 Deutsche Bank
64,741 Deutsche Bank AG, London
207,242 HSBC
262,180 HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited
5,144,638 JP Morgan
228,700 Mellon Nominees Ltd
672,700 Morgan Stanley
11,600 National Australia Bank
1,449,131 Northern Trust
1,335,700 Nortrust Nominees Ltd
56,000 Nortrust Nominees Ltd
264,500 Northern Trust London
6,600 PICG
716,300 State Street Bank & Trust
16,000 State Street Hong Kong
558,000 State Street Nominees Ltd
26,953,082 Chase Manhattan Bank London
1,233,736 Chase Nominees Ltd
13,255,159 Chase Nominees Limited
7,054,108 HSBC
40,488 JP Morgan Chase
8,100 State Street Bank & Trust
4,093,777 State Street Nominees Limited
201,600 Bank of New York
609,500 BT Globenet Nominees Limited
113,900 Chase Nominees Ltd.
1,700 Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited
28,004 Mater Trust Japan
36,000 Mellon Bank
158,500 Northern Trust
671,821 State Street Bank & Trust
191,000 State Street Nominees Ltd.
296,693 Sumitomo T&B
301,000 Bank of New York London
656,000 Bankers Trust
2,373 BBH
335,100 Chase Nominees Ltd
425,800 Citibank
209,500 HSBC
479,900 HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited
78,262,246 Grand Total Ordinary Shares
CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE: 13.02%
SHARES IN ISSUE: 600,941,549
CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE LAST FILING: + 4,953,822 ORDINARY SHARES
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