Notifications of Major Intere

RNS Number : 9668M

Costain Group PLC

06 February 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:

Costain Group plc

2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights	Yes
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached	No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights	No
Other (please specify):______________	No

3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:				Gartmore Investment Limited
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
Fund Managing Co	No. of Shares Held	Issued Share Capital	% of Issued Capital		UK Registered Owner	Fund	Beneficial Owner
Gartmore Fund Managers Limited	7,223,907		1.141%		HSBC Global Custody Nominee UK Ltd.	GCAUTS	Gartmore Fund Managers Ltd A/C  Gartmore Cautious Managed Funds
Gartmore Fund Managers Limited	4,581,926		0.723%		HSBC Global Custody Nominee UK Ltd	GUKEI	Gartmore Fund Managers A/C Gartmore U.K. Equity Income Fund
Gartmore Fund Managers Limited	8,000,000		1.263%		HSBC Global Custody Nominee UK Ltd.	56690	Gartmore Fund Managers Ltd. A/C Gartmore UK & Irish Smaller Companies
	19,805,833		3.127%
Gartmore Investment Limited	1,727,417		0.273%		Gartmore Growth Opportunities	56640	Gartmore Growth Opportunities PLC
Gartmore Investment Limited	523,567		0.083%		Bank of Bermuda Luxembourg	SICAV3	Gartmore SICAV Pan Euro Smaller Companies Fund
Gartmore Investment Limited	2,008,513		0.317%		Vidacos Nominees Ltd A/C 2303	VOLANT	The Alphagen Volantis Fund Limited
Gartmore Investment Limited	7,082,833		1.118%		Nortrust Nominees Limited	54550	Strathclyde Pension Fund
	11,342,330		1.791%
	31,148,163	633,366,063	4.918%

5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	3 February 2009
6. Date on which issuer notified:	4 February 2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	5%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use ISIN code	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		Percentage of voting rights
				Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
GB0002272184	50,117,835	50,117,835	31,148,163		31,148,163		4.918%

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)	Percentage of voting rights

Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
31,148,163	4.918%

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

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:	All shares are held indirectly. All figures are based on the Company's issued share capital of 633,366,063 as provided by Exshare Email contact [e-mail]
14 Contact name:	RDU
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7782 2000

 

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