Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 1844X

Halfords Group PLC

10 August 2009

 

TR1: Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	Halfords 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 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):______________		No
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	See additional information under 13
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached):	06 August 2009
6. Date on which issuer notified:	07 August 2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Below the threshold of 5%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares   if possible using the 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		% of voting rights
				Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
ISINGB00B012TP20 ORD GBP 0.01		10,619,637	10,619,637	156,241	156,241	10,232,376	0.074%	4.874%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is 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 Price	Expiration Date	Exercise/ Conversion Period	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
10,388,617	4.948%

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

Ameriprise Financial Inc, which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of Treadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. and Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, which itself controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd, Threadneedle International Ltd and Threadneedle Pensions Ltd

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:	Registered Owner Chase Nominees Ltd    A/c 41407    1,630,000 Morgan Stanley Nominees Ltd    A/c 04F607602    10,350 Ameriprise Financial Inc    A/c    21,800 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 03449    165,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 05577    179,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 05576    2,090,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 27642    39,241 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 07197    117,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 10478    20,983 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 10479    7,300 Morgan Stanley Nominees Ltd    A/c 36199142    200,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 07203    94,500 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 21667    36,800 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 34789    169,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 07196    67,872 Roy Nominees    A/c 104450    154,911 Mellon Nominees (UK) Ltd    A/c WWSF0004002    466,622 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 18667    175,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 10469    160,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 10496    1,516,600 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 10492    340,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 10488    460,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 10495    345,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 10489    1,213,638 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 10490    475,000 Littledown Nominees Ltd    A/c 31348    233,000
14. Contact name:	Company Secretary, Threadneedle Group
15. Contact telephone number:	-

 

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