Holding(s) in Company
Senior PLC
9 December 2002
DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS
1) NAME OF COMPANY
SENIOR PLC
2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST
SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED
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
SHAREHOLDER NAMED IN 2 ABOVE
4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them.
SEE BELOW
5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.
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6) ( N/A %) of issued Class
7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed
-
8) ( N/A %) of issued Class
9) Class of security
ORDINARY SHARES OF 10p EACH
10) Date of transaction
11) Date company informed
09/12/2002
12) Total holding following this notification
45,015,922
13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification
14.645%
14) Any additional information
15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries
A. BODENHAM - 01923 714745
16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification
Date of Notification ...9th DECEMBER 2002
LETTER TO SENIOR PLC
SENIOR PLC
10p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES')
We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in 45,015,922 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a
discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.
Included in this figure are:-
(i) 17,497,873 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our
wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited
(Schroder Nominees),
(ii) 8,473,431 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by an
affiliated company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL). These shares are
registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited.
(iii) 19,044,618 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of
Schroder Nominees Limited, The registration details are shown on schedule
A.
We believe that our interest represents some 14.645% of the total number of
shares in issue, namely 307,363,211 shares.
This notification is made to you:-
(a) in respect of our interest as investment managers,
(b) on behalf of SUTL in relation to the interests they are treated as having
respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and
(c) on behalf of Schroders plc., our holding company, which is treated as having
an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its
ownership of SUTL and ourselves.
We would be grateful if you could kindly confirm the total number of shares
currently in issue.
SCHEDULE A
SENIOR PLC
10p ORDINARY SHARES
REGISTRATION AMOUNT
Bank of New York 3,287,100
Chase Nominees 1,344,000
MSS Nominees Limited a/c: 846435 2,594,250
Morgan Nominees Limited 2,103,900
Nortrust Nominees Limited 2,360,168
RBSTB Nominees Limited 4,816,100
State Street Nominees Limited 658,000
State Street Nominees Limited a/c: 5H57 1,881,100
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19,044,618
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LETTER FROM SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED
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