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Rank Group PLC 18 November 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 15 NOVEMBER 04 11) Date company informed 18 NOVEMBER 04 12) Total holding following this notification 90,164,000 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 14.99% 14) Any additional information 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries CLARE DUFFILL TEL: 020 7706 1111 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Date of Notification 18 NOVEMBER 2004 AMENDMENT NO. 14 NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK 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 No 14 SHARES HELD MANAGEMENT NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME COMPANY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 909,800 FIL Bank of New York Brussels Total 6,095,829 FIL Bank of New York London Total 726,456 FIL Brown Brothers Harriman Total 121,800 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank AG Frankfurt Total 5,868,357 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank London Total 104,100 FIL Chase Nominees Ltd Total 512,481 FIL Deutsche Bank Total 8,800 FIL Dexia Privatbank (Schweiz) Total 171,200 FIL HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited Total 5,150,238 FIL JP Morgan Total 366,227 FIL Mellon Nominees Ltd Total 921,200 FIL Morgan Stanley Total 2,566,347 FIL Northern Trust Total 1,884,200 FIL Nortrust Nominees Ltd Total 264,500 FIL Northern Trust Total 956,400 FIL State Street Bank & Trust Total 16,000 FIL State Street Hong Kong Total 747,000 FIL State Street Nominees Ltd Total 30,368,267 FISL Chase Manhattan Bank London Total 2,351,009 FISL Chase Nominees Ltd Total 13,907,004 FMRCO Chase Nominees Limited Total 5,065,062 FMRCO HSBC Total 1,752,307 FMRCO JP Morgan Chase Total 134,700 FMRCO Northern Trust Total 16,300 FMRCO State Street Bank & Trust Total 4,412,325 FMRCO State Street Nominees Limited Total 211,100 FMTC Bank of New York Total 609,500 FMTC BT Globenet Nominees Limited Total 1,700 FMTC Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited Total 30,304 FMTC Master Trust Japan Total 36,000 FMTC Mellon Bank Total 215,800 FMTC Northern Trust Total 1,067,814 FMTC State Street Bank & Trust Total 174,000 FMTC State Street Nominees Ltd. Total 427,400 FPM Bank of New York London Total 2,373 FPM BBH Total 360,400 FPM Chase Nominees Ltd Total 575,400 FPM Citibank Total 295,600 FPM HSBC Total 507,000 FPM HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited Total 251,700 FPM Mellon Nominees Ltd Total ---------- 90,164,000 Grand Total Ordinary Shares ---------- CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE: 14.99% SHARES IN ISSUE: 601,390,786 CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE LAST FILING: (200,000) ORDINARY SHARES This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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