Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 2409G

Burberry Group PLC

27 January 2010

 

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

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

Burberry Group plc

2. Reason for the notification 

    (please place an X inside the appropriate bracket/s):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: YES

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached: NO

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments:  NO

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights: NO

Other (please specify) :

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

Schroders plc

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

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

    26 January 2010

6. Date on which issuer notified:

27 January 2010

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

Below 5% threshold

  8. Notified Details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares if possible use ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights
GB0031743007	24,660,992	21,732,674

	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Class/type of shares if possible use ISIN CODE	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights
		Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
GB00317430007	24,594,670	N/A	21,666,352	N/A	4.991%

B: Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/ converted)	% of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Exercise date	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period	No. of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
21,666,352	4.991%

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

Schroder Investment Management Limited	21,334,550	4.915%
Schroder Investment Management North America Limited	241,456	0.056%
Schroder & Co Limited	46,187	0.011%
Schroder & Co Guernsey Limited	44,159	0.010%

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of 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:

14. Contact name:

    Kathryn Dickinson, Deputy Company Secretary, Burberry Group plc    

15. Contact telephone number:

020 3367 3505

 

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