Holding(s) in Company

Britvic plc
13 February 2007



TR-1[ i ]: notification of major interests in shares

+-----------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying    |           BRITVIC plc            |
|issuer of existing shares to which voting      |                                  |
|rights are attached[ii]:                       |                                  |
+-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------+----------+
|2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or     |          |
|boxes)                                                                 |          |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
|An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                            |    X     |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
|An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in|          |
|the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are    |          |
|attached                                                               |          |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
|An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                       |          |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
|Other (please specify):                                                |          |
+-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------+----------+
|3. Full name of person(s) subject to the       |AXA SA, 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 |
|notification obligation[ iii ]:                |Paris and its group of companies  |
+-----------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different   |N/A                               |
|from 3.)[ iv ]:                                |                                  |
+-----------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|5. Date of the transaction (and date on which  |08/02/2007                        |
|the threshold is crossed or reached if         |                                  |
|different)[ v ]:                               |                                  |
+-----------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|6. Date on which issuer notified:              |09/02/2007                        |
+-----------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|7.                                             |                                  |
|Threshold(s)                                   |                                  |
|that is/are                                    |                                  |
|crossed or                                     |                                  |
|reached:                                       |                              14% |
+-----------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+-+
|8. Notified details:                           |                                | |
+-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------+-+
+-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------+-+

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|A: Voting rights attached to shares                                                          |
+--------+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
|Class/  |Situation previous to the  |Resulting situation after the triggering transaction[1] |
|type of |Triggering transaction [1] |                                                        |
|shares  |                           |                                                        |
+--------+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
|if      |                           |                                                        |
|possible+-------------+-------------+------------+--------------------------+----------------+
|using   |Number of    |Number of    |Number of   |Number of voting rights ix|% of voting     |
|the ISIN|Shares       |Voting Rights|shares      |                          |rights          |
|CODE    |             |viii         +------------+------------+-------------+-------+--------+
|        |             |             |Direct      |Direct x    |Indirect xi  |Direct |Indirect|
+--------+-------------+-------------+------------+------------+-------------+-------+--------+
|Ord     | 30,551,138  | 30,551,138  | 9,834,162  | 9,834,162  | 20,396,408  | 4.55% |  9.44% |
+--------+-------------+-------------+------------+------------+-------------+-------+--------+
|B0N8QD5 |             |             |            |            |             |       |        |
+--------+-------------+-------------+------------+------------+-------------+-------+--------+

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|B: Financial Instruments                                                      |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction xii                      |
+-----------+----------+--------------+--------------------------------+-------+
|Type of    |Expiration|Exercise/     |Number of voting rights that may|% of   |
|financial  |date xiii |Conversion    |be acquired if the instrument is|voting |
|instrument |          |Period/ Date  |exercised/ converted.           |rights |
|           |          |xiv           |                                |       |
+-----------+----------+--------------+--------------------------------+-------+
|        -  |       -  |           -  |                             -  |    -  |
+-----------+----------+--------------+--------------------------------+-------+

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Total (A+B)                                                                   |
+-------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|Number of voting rights                    |% of voting rights                |
+-------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|                               30,230,570  |                           13.99% |
+-------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+








+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the|
|financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable xv:                 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Name of Company/Fund   |No. of Shares |% of issued capital |Direct/Indirect ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||AXA UK Investment Co   |              |                    |                ||
||ICVC Distribution Fund |     175,000  |              0.08  |Indirect        ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||PPP Healthcare Group   |              |                    |                ||
||plc                    |      90,000  |              0.04  |Indirect        ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Pensions      |              |                    |                ||
||Management Ltd         |     100,000  |              0.05  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Pensions      |              |                    |                ||
||Management Ltd A/c X   |     238,462  |              0.11  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Assurance     |              |                    |                ||
||Society Plc            |   2,469,231  |              1.14  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Unit          |              |                    |                ||
||Assurance Ltd A/c X    |     238,462  |              0.11  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Unit          |              |                    |                ||
||Assurance Ltd A/c X    |      95,384  |              0.04  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Unit          |              |                    |                ||
||Assurance Ltd A/c X    |     238,461  |              0.11  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Pensions      |              |                    |                ||
||Management Ltd         |      84,820  |              0.04  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life International |              |                    |                ||
||(IOM) Ltd.             |     750,000  |              0.35  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||AXA Insurance UK       |     357,550  |              0.17  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||AXA Sun Life plc       |   3,421,300  |              1.58  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||AXA UK Group Pension   |              |                    |                ||
||Scheme Equity Fund     |     100,000  |              0.05  |Indirect        ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||AXA Financial, Inc     |  20,031,408  |              9.27  |Indirect        ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Unit          |              |                    |                ||
||Assurance Ltd LTAV UK  |              |                    |                ||
||Equity                 |      52,883  |              0.02  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Unit          |              |                    |                ||
||Assurance Ltd ABL High |              |                    |                ||
||Alpha                  |     210,200  |              0.10  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Unit          |              |                    |                ||
||Assurance Ltd FTSE All |              |                    |                ||
||Share Tracker          |      37,676  |              0.02  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Pensions      |              |                    |                ||
||Management LTAV UK     |              |                    |                ||
||Equity                 |     346,103  |              0.16  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Pensions      |              |                    |                ||
||Management ABL High    |              |                    |                ||
||Alpha                  |   1,014,200  |              0.47  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
||Sun Life Pensions      |              |                    |                ||
||Management FTSE All    |              |                    |                ||
||Share Tracker          |     179,430  |              0.08  |Direct          ||
|+-----------------------+--------------+--------------------+----------------+|
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Proxy Voting:                                                                 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+----+
|10. Name of the proxy holder:                                            |N/A |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+----+
|11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:             |N/A |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+----+
|12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:         |N/A |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+----+

+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|13. Additional information:     |                                          -  |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|14. Contact name:               |John Price, Company Secretary, Britvic plc   |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|15. Contact telephone number:   |[phone]                          |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+


Notes
--------------------------



[i] This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and to be filed
with the competent authority.

[ii] Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for identifying
the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and accurate.

[iii] This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the person
acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights in the cases provided for in
DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h); (c) all the parties to the agreement referred to in
DTR5.2.1 (a), or (d) the direct or indirect holder of financial instruments
entitled to acquire shares already issued to which voting rights are attached,
as appropriate.

In relation to the transactions referred to in points DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h), the
following list is provided as indication of the persons who should be mentioned:

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (b), the person that acquires the
voting rights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement and the
natural person or legal entity who is transferring temporarily for consideration
the voting rights;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR 5.2.1 (c), the person holding the
collateral, provided the person or entity controls the voting rights and
declares its intention of exercising them, and person lodging the collateral
under these conditions;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1(d), the person who has a life
interest in shares if that person is entitled to exercise the voting rights
attached to the shares and the person who is disposing of the voting rights when
the life interest is created;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (e), the parent undertaking and,
provided it has a notification duty at an individual level under DTR 5.1, under
DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a combination of any of those situations, the
controlled undertaking;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (f), the deposit taker of the
shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the shares deposited
with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares allowing the deposit
taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (g), the person that controls the
voting rights;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (h), the proxy holder, if he can
exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder who has given
his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise the voting rights
at his discretion.

[iv] Applicable in the cases provided for in DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h). This should
be the full name of the shareholder or holder of financial instruments who is
the counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in DTR5.2.

[v] The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an on
exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in the
case of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an agreement.

The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which the
acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect (see
DTR 5.1.1R (3)). For passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took
effect.[DEL: :DEL]

These dates will usually be the same unless the transaction is subject to a
condition beyond the control of the parties.



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