Holding(s) in Company

Sage Group PLC
12 December 2005


The Sage Group plc

NOTIFICATION OF SHAREHOLDING

The Company received notification on 9 December 2005 that:

Fidelity International Limited ('FIL'), the parent holding company for various
direct and indirect subsidiaries, including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd
(FISL), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST), Fidelity Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited
(FIA(K)L), Fidelity Investments Management (Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHK), Fidelity
Pension Management (FPM), Fidelity Investments Japan (FIJ) and Fidelity
Investments International (FII), investment managers for various non-US
investment companies and institutional clients, have a notifiable interest in 
the Ordinary Shares of the Company.

The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of Mr Edward C.
Johnson 3rd, a principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International
Limited.

The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorised unit
trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from reporting pursuant
to Section 209(1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

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 3rd 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.

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.

The registered holders are as follows:-

Registered Holder                      Management Company          Shares held

N/A                                    N/A                              17,400
JP Morgan, Bournemouth                 FPM                           3,034,480
Northern Trust London                  FPM                           2,207,900
Mellon Bank                            FPM                           1,244,700
Bank of New York Brussels              FPM                           1,128,300
State Street Bank and Trust Co Lndn    FPM                             897,710
Bankers Trust London                   FPM                             573,000
Midland Securities Services            FPM                             263,200
Clydesdale Bank plc                    FPM                             170,800
JP Morgan, Bournemouth                 FISL                          1,845,281
Brown Bros Harriman                    FIL                          26,769,861
Bank of New York Brussels              FIL                             292,800
Northern Trust London                  FIL                             115,100

                                       Total                        38,560,532

This represents 3.01% of the total amount of shares in issue.



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