Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 5728D

Burberry Group PLC

03 December 2009

 



TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting 
    rights are attached:

Burberry Group plc

2. Reason for the notification

   (please place an X inside the appropriate bracket/s):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: YES

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached: NO

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments:  NO

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights: NO

Other (please specify) :

3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:

BlackRock, Inc.

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3) :

5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):

1 December 2009

6. Date on which issuer notified:

3 December 2009

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

Above 5% threshold

  8. Notified Details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares if possible use ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights
GB0031743007	21,266,598	21,266,598

	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Class/type of shares if possible use ISIN CODE	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights
		Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
GB00317430007	N/A	N/A	38,510,030	N/A	8.88%

B: Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/ converted)	% of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Exercise date	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period	No. of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta
CFD	N/A	N/A	N/A	676,937	0.16%

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
39,186,967	9.03%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable :

On 1 December 2009, the Barclays Global Investors (BGI) business was acquired by BlackRock, Inc. The combined holdings of BlackRock, Inc following this acquisition triggered this disclosure requirement.

BlackRock investment Management (UK) Limited - 39,186,967 (9.03%)

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:

14. Contact name:

    Kathryn Dickinson, Deputy Company Secretary, Burberry Group plc    

15. Contact telephone number:

020 3367 3505

 

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