Holding(s) in Company

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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                    |
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the          |                       |
| underlying issuer                         |                       |
| of existing shares to which voting rights | Wincanton plc         |
| are                                       |                       |
| attached:                                 |                       |
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| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or |
| boxes):                                                           |
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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights          |    Yes     |
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| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial   |            |
| instruments which may result in the acquisition of   |     No     |
| shares already issued to which voting rights are     |            |
| attached                                             |            |
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| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with       |            |
| similar economic effect to qualifying financial      |     No     |
| instruments                                          |            |
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| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights     |     No     |
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| Other (please          |                             |     No     |
| specify):              |                             |            |
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| 3. Full name of person(s)       |                                 |
| subject to the                  | Legal & General Group Plc (L&G) |
| notification obligation:        |                                 |
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s)  | Legal & General Assurance       |
|  (if different from 3.):        | (Pensions Management) Limited   |
|                                 | (PMC)                           |
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| 5. Date of the transaction and  |                                 |
| date on                         |                                 |
| which the threshold is crossed  | 3 August 2009                   |
| or                              |                                 |
| reached:                        |                                 |
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| 6. Date on which issuer         | 5 August 2009                   |
| notified:                       |                                 |
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are     |                                 |
| crossed or                      | From 4% - 3% (L&G)              |
| reached:                        |                                 |
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|8. Notified details:                                                                                  |
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|A: Voting rights attached to shares                                                                   |
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|Class/type of     |Situation previous           |Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
|shares            |to the triggering            |                                                     |
|if possible using |transaction                  |                                                     |
|the ISIN CODE     |-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------|
|                  |Number           |Number     |Number   |Number of voting     |% of  voting rights x|
|                  |of               |of         |of shares|rights               |                     |
|                  |Shares           |Voting     |---------+---------------------+---------------------|
|                  |                 |Rights     |         |Direct xi   |Indirect|Direct     |Indirect |
|                  |                 |           |         |            |xii     |           |         |
|------------------+-----------------+-----------+---------+------------+--------+-----------+---------|
|Ordinary Shares of|                 |           |         |            |        |           |         |
|10 pence each     |4,984,763        |4,984,763  |4,829,448|4,829,448   |N/A     |3.97       |N/A      |
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|GB0030329360      |                 |           |         |            |        |           |         |
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|B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                                   |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                  |
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|Type of financial          |Expiration    |Exercise/            |Number of voting       |% of voting  |
|instrument                 |date          |Conversion Period    |rights that may be     |rights       |
|                           |              |                     |acquired if the        |             |
|                           |              |                     |instrument is          |             |
|                           |              |                     |exercised/ converted.  |             |
|---------------------------+--------------+---------------------+-----------------------+-------------|
|N/A                        |N/A           |N/A                  |N/A                    |N/A          |
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|C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments             |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                  |
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|Type of financial  |Exercise price  |Expiration|Exercise/ |Number of voting rights |% of voting rights|
|instrument         |                |date      |Conversion|instrument refers to    |                  |
|                   |                |          |period    |                        |                  |
|-------------------+----------------+----------+----------+------------------------+------------------|
|                   |                |          |          |                        |Nominal   |Delta  |
|N/A                |N/A             |N/A       |N/A       |N/A                     |----------+-------|
|                   |                |          |          |                        |N/A       |N/A    |
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|Total (A+B+C)                                                                                         |
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|Number of voting rights                              |Percentage of voting rights                     |
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|4,829,448                                            |3.97                                            |
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting      |
| rights and/or the                                                 |
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:        |
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| Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group)           |
|                                                                   |
| Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited          |
| (LGIMH) (Direct and Indirect)                                     |
|                                                                   |
| Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) (LGIM)   |
|                                                                   |
| Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) (4,829,448 - 3.97% =     |
| LGAS, LGPL & PMC)                                                 |
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| | Legal & General Investment         | Legal & General          | |
| | Management (Holdings) Limited      | Insurance Holdings       | |
| | (Direct) (LGIMHD) (4,453,685 -     | Limited (Direct) (LGIH)  | |
| | 3.66% = PMC)                       |                          | |
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| |                                    |                          | |
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| | Legal & General Assurance          | Legal & General          | |
| | (Pensions Management) Limited      | Assurance Society        | |
| | (PMC) (4,453,685 - 3.66% = PMC)    | Limited (LGAS & LGPL)    | |
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| |                                    |                          | |
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| |                                    | Legal & General Pensions | |
| |                                    | Limited (Direct) (LGPL)  | |
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| Proxy Voting:                                                     |
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder:                  | N/A              |
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will  |                  |
| cease                                          | N/A              |
| to hold:                                       |                  |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to   |                  |
| hold                                           | N/A              |
| voting rights:                                 |                  |
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| 13. Additional information: | Notification using the total voting |
|                             | rights figure of 121,383,977        |
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| 14. Contact name:           | Steve Williams, Deputy Company      |
|                             | Secretary                           |
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| 15. Contact telephone       | 01249 710 000                       |
| number:                     |                                     |
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| 16. Authorised by:          | Charles Phillips, Company Secretary |
|                             | 5 August 2009                       |
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