Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 8881K

Wolseley PLC

27 April 2010

 



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:

Wolseley 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:							AXA S.A., 25 Avenue Matignon,  75008 Paris and its group of companies
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:							23/04/2010
6. Date on which issuer notified:							27/04/2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:							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
					Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
B5ZN3P4	14,319,143		14,319,143		239,639	239,639	12,825,586	0.08	4.52
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.			% 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 price	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion period	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
13,065,225	4.60%

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

Name of Company / Fund Number of shares % of issued share capital Alliance Bernstein (Direct) 92,200 0.032481 Alliance Capital Management (Direct) 46,800 0.016487 AXA Financial, Inc  (Indirect) 12,781,890.30 4.502870 AXA IM UK  (Direct) 100,639 0.035454 AXA IM UK  (Indirect) 43,696 0.015393 Total Direct 239,639 0.08442 Total Indirect 12,825,586 4.51826 Total 13,065,225 4.60268

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:
14. Contact name:	Alison Drew
15. Contact telephone number:	0118 929 8700

 

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