Holding(s) in Company
Rank Group PLC
29 March 2004
SCHEDULE 10
NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES
1) NAME OF COMPANY
THE RANK GROUP PLC
2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST
FMR CORP
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL LTD
3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18
NOTIFIABLE INTEREST OF COMPANIES IN (2) ABOVE AND THEIR SUBSIDIARIES
4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them.
SEE LETTER BELOW
5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.
6) Percentage of issued Class
7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed
8) Percentage of issued Class
9) Class of security
ORDINARY SHARES
10) Date of transaction
26 MARCH 2004
11) Date company informed
29 MARCH 2004
12) Total holding following this notification
25,492,131
13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification
4.27%
14) Any additional information
15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries
CLARE DUFFILL
(TEL: 020 7706 1111)
16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification
Date of Notification
29 MARCH 2004
Amendment #1
NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 - U.K. COMPANIES ACT
1. Company in which shares are held: Rank Group Plc
2. Notifiable Interest: Ordinary Shares + ADR's
(A) FMR Corp.
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109
Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO),
investment manager for US mutual funds and Fidelity Management Trust Company
(FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment
manager of various pension and trust accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of
Registered Shareholders and their holdings).
(B) Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
P.O. Box HM 670
Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda
Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL) and Fidelity Pension
Management (FPM), investment managers for various non-US investment companies
and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered
Shareholders and their holdings.)
3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:
Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109
A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited.
4. The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized
unit trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from reporting
pursuant to Section 209 (l)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.
5. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the
purposes of clarity and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to
indicate that FMR Corp, and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity
International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr. Edward
C. Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the disclosed
interests, or that they are required to submit these notifications on a joint
basis.
6. The disclosable interests arise under section 208 (4) (b) of the Act,
namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to
exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the
exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively.
Schedule A
Security: Rank Group Plc Amendment# 1
MANAGEMENT
SHARES HELD COMPANY NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME
(Ordinary Shares)
161,800 FMRCO State Street Nominees Limited
1,490,700 FMRCO Chase Nominees Ltd
508,000 FMTC BT Globenet Nominees Limited
14,100 FMTC Deutsche Bank AG
128,300 FMTC Bank of New York
153,700 FMTC State Street Bank & Trust
6,000 FMTC Northern Trust
118,300 FMTC State Street Nominees Ltd.
127,000 FMTC Sumitomo T&B
27,900 FMTC Chase Nominees Ltd.
1,700 FMTC Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited
453,992 FISL Chase Nominees Ltd
9,798,730 FISL Chase Manhattan Bank London
266,300 FPM Citibank
270,300 FPM Chase Nominees Ltd
502,500 FPM HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK)
Limited
717,900 FPM Bankers Trust
184,900 FPM Bank of New York London
1,855,118 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank London
109,400 FIL Deutsche Bank
974,200 FIL Northern Trust
2,142,436 FIL JP Morgan
1,124,044 FIL State Street Bank & Trust
73,400 FIL Mellon Nominees Ltd
348,700 FIL State Street Nominees Ltd
492,400 FIL Bank of New York Brussels
1,036,100 FIL Bank of New York London
817,911 FIL Nortrust Nominees Ltd
412,700 FIL Morgan Stanley
65,800 FIL HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK)
Limited
126,800 FIL Chase Nominees Ltd
191,900 FIL Northern Trust
10,000 FIL National Australia Bank
5,200 FIL PICG
86,200 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank AG Frankfurt
12,500 FIL State Street Hong Kong
21,600 FIL Citibank
53,600 FIL Brown Brothers Harriman Ltd. LUX
The following shares are based on the assumed conversion of 26,180,992 Rank
Group PLC ADR (2 ordinary shares per ADR)
183,800 FMRCO Chase Nominees Limited
142,400 FMTC BT Globenet Nominees Limited
26,400 FMTC State Street Bank & Trust
40,000 FMTC Deutsche Bank AG
17,000 FMTC Northern Trust
40,000 FISL Chase Manhattan Bank London
150,400 FIL Brown Brothers Harriman Ltd. LUX
Total Ordinary
Shares 25,492,131
Current ownership 4.27%
percentage:
Shares in issue: 597,258,676
Change in holdings
since last filing: +5,912,500 ORDINARY SHARES
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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