Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 7316I

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC

10 December 2015

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

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

IMPERIAL TOBACCO GROUP PLC

2. Reason for the notification (please place an X inside the appropriate bracket/s):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: ( X )

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached: ( )

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments: ( )

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights: ( )

Other (please specify): ( )

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

The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

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

	Number of Shares	Percent of Outstanding
Capital Guardian Trust Company	4,399,457	0.459%
Capital International Limited	69,382	0.007%
Capital International Sàrl	173,497	0.018%
Capital International, Inc.	45,301	0.005%
Capital Research and Management Company	43,266,958	4.513%

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

1 December 2015

6. Date on which issuer notified:

10 December 2015

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

Above 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
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
Ordinary (ISIN: GB0004544929)	47,117,899	47,117,899			47,667,899		4.972%
ADRs (ISIN: US4531421018)	143,148	286,296			286,296		0.030%

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.	Percentage of voting rights
n/a

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

Percentage of voting rights

n/a

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
47,954,595	5.002%

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

	Number of Shares	Percent of Outstanding
The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CG") Holdings Holdings by CG Management Companies and Funds:	47,954,595	5.002%
Capital Guardian Trust Company	4,399,457	0.459%
Capital International Limited	69,382	0.007%
Capital International Sàrl	173,497	0.018%
Capital International, Inc.	45,301	0.005%
Capital Research and Management Company	43,266,958	4.513%