Holding(s) in Company

Sage Group PLC
30 January 2006



The Sage Group plc

NOTIFICATION OF SHAREHOLDING

The Company received notification on 30 January 2006 that:

FMR Corp.
82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109

the 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 of investment manager
of various pension and trust accounts,

and

Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
P.O. Box HM 670, Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

the parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST),
Fidelity Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited (FIA(K)L), Fidelity Investments
Management (Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHK), Fidelity Pension Management (FPM),
Fidelity Investments Japan (FIJ) and Fidelity Investments International (FII),
investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional
clients,

have a notifiable interest in the Ordinary Shares of the Company.

The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of

Mr Edward C. Johnson 3rd
82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA 02109

a principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited.

The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorised unit
trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from reporting pursuant
to Section 209(1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

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 3rd 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.

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.

The registered holders are as follows:-

Registered Holder                      Management Company          Shares held

Northern Trust London                  FPM                           3,371,700
JP Morgan, Bournemouth                 FPM                           3,256,080
Mellon Bank                            FPM                           1,472,700
Bank of New York Brussels              FPM                           1,288,400
State Street Bank and Trust Co Lndn    FPM                           1,056,910
Bankers Trust London                   FPM                             630,200
Midland Securities Services            FPM                             279,700
Clydesdale Bank plc                    FPM                             179,400
Chase Manhattan Bank AG Frankfurt      FPM                              68,900
JP Morgan, Chase Bank                  FPM                              35,400
Dexia Private Bank                     FPM                              16,200
Chase Manhattan London                 FPM                              14,800
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co           FMTC                            431,700
State Street Bank and Trust            FMTC                            363,000
Bank of New York                       FMTC                            176,100
Northern Trust Co                      FMTC                            156,600
JPMorgan Chase Bank                    FMTC                            143,900
Northern Trust London                  FMRCO                            60,200
State Street Bank and Trust            FMRCO                            39,100
Mellon Bank N.A.                       FMRCO                            29,000
JP Morgan, Bournemouth                 FISL                          7,360,844
Brown Bros Harriman Lux                FIL                          29,806,377
JP Morgan, Bournemouth                 FIL                           1,745,100
Bank of New York Brussels              FIL                             379,500
Northern Trust                         FIL                             262,300
State Street Bank and Trust            FIL                              97,300
JP Morgan Bournemouth                  FIL                              84,900
State Street Bank and Trust            FICL                            130,700
State Street Hong Kong                 FIA(K)L                          22,200

Total                                                               52,959,211

This represents 4.14% of the total amount of shares in issue.



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