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: |
Next plc |
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): |
||
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:
|
Schroders plc |
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
|
|
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:
|
12th August 2010 |
6. Date on which issuer notified:
|
13th August 2010 |
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
|
Below 5% |
8. Notified details: |
|||||||||||
A: Voting rights attached to shares
|
|||||||||||
Class/type of
|
Situation previous |
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
|||||||||
Number |
Number |
Number |
Number of voting |
% of voting rights |
|||||||
Direct |
Direct |
Indirect |
Direct |
Indirect |
|||||||
GB0032089863 |
9,816,159 |
9,244,803 |
9,388,595 |
N/A |
8,817,239 |
N/A |
4.791% |
||||
|
|||||||||||
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments |
|||||||||||
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
|
|||||||||||
Type of financial |
Expiration |
Exercise/ |
Number of voting
|
% of voting |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments |
||||||
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
|
||||||
Type of financial |
Exercise |
Expiration |
Exercise/ |
Number of voting |
% of voting rights
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total (A+B+C)
|
|
Number of voting rights |
Percentage of voting rights |
8,817,239 |
4.791% |
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the |
Schroder Investment Management Limited - 8,646,485 - 4.698% Schroder Investment Management North Amercia Limited - 44,458 - 0.024% Schroder & Co Limited - 118,126 - 0.064% Schroders (CI) Limited - 8,170 - 0.004% |
Proxy Voting:
|
|
10. Name of the 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:
|
The shares referred to in section 9 are held in portfolios managed by those firms on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements. |
14. Contact name:
|
Taryn O'Donoghue |
15. Contact telephone number:
|
020 7658 6000 |