|
||||
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi |
||||
|
|
|||
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer |
Home Retail Group plc |
|||
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): |
||||
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights |
ü |
|||
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached |
N/A |
|||
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments |
N/A |
|||
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights |
N/A |
|||
|
|
|
||
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the |
Royal Bank of Canada |
|||
4. Full name of shareholder(s) |
RBC cees Trustee Limited Royal Bank of Canada Investment Management (U.K.) Limited RBC Trust Company (International) Limited RBC Capital Markets, LLC RBC Trust Company (Delaware) Limited |
|||
5. Date of the transaction and date on |
27 May 2014 |
|||
6. Date on which issuer notified: |
30 May 2014 |
|||
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or |
Over 5% |
|||
8. Notified details: |
||||||||||||||||
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix |
||||||||||||||||
Class/type of
|
Situation previous |
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
||||||||||||||
Number |
Number |
Number |
Number of voting |
% of voting rights x |
||||||||||||
Direct |
Direct xi |
Indirect xii |
Direct |
Indirect |
||||||||||||
Ordinary 10p
|
34,314,121 |
34,314,121 |
40,692,718 |
|
40,692,718 |
|
5.00% |
|||||||||
(GB00B19NKB76)
|
||||||||||||||||
American Depositary Receipt
|
0 |
0 |
31,336 |
|
127,592 |
|
0.02% |
|||||||||
(US43731T1025)
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments |
||||||||||||||||
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
||||||||||||||||
Type of financial |
Expiration |
Exercise/ |
Number of voting |
% of voting |
||||||||||||
N/a |
N/a |
N/a |
N/a |
N/a |
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi |
||||||||||||||||
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
||||||||||||||||
Type of financial |
Exercise price |
Expiration date xvii |
Exercise/ |
Number of voting rights instrument refers to
|
% of voting rights xix, xx
|
|||||||||||
N/a |
N/a |
N/a |
N/a |
N/a
|
Nominal |
Delta |
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Total (A+B+C) |
||||||||||||||||
Number of voting rights |
Percentage of voting rights |
|||||||||||||||
40,820,310 |
5.02% |
|||||||||||||||
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the |
||
RBC cees Trustee Limited, Royal Bank of Canada Investment Management (U.K.) Limited, RBC Trust Company (International) Limited, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and RBC Trust Company (Delaware) Limited are wholly owned indirect subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Canada.
RBC cees Trustee Limited acting as Trustee for the Employee Share Trust for Home Retail Group plc
The allocation of holdings are held as follows: · RBC cees Trustee Limited held on behalf of the Employee Share Trust - 40,672,250 (4.99%) · RBC Trust Company (International) Limited - 17,200 · RBC Investment Management (UK) Ltd - 3,268 · RBC Wealth Management U.S. - 31,336
Note:- (The overall aggregated position held represents 5.02% of the issued share capital.) |
||
|
||
Proxy Voting: |
||
10. Name of the proxy holder: |
N/a |
|
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease |
N/a |
|
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold |
N/a |
|
|
||
|
|
|
14. Contact name: |
Scott Roberts or Graham Horsnell |
|
15. Contact telephone number: |
(01534) 602971 / 283292 |
|