Holding in Company

RNS Number : 5570C
Grafton Group PLC
08 March 2011
 

Standard Form TR - 1

Voting rights attached to Shares - Article 12(1) of Directive 2004/109/EC

Financial Instruments - Article 11(3) of the Commission Directive 2007/14/EC

 

1

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

 

Grafton Group plc

2

Reason for the notification (please place an X inside the appropriate box):

 


An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

 

x


An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached



An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

 



Other (please specify)

 


3

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

Ameriprise Financial Inc

4

Full name of shareholders(s) (if different from 3):

Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Limited

5

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

7 March 2011

6

Date on which issuer notified:

8 March 2011

 

7

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

3%

8

Notified Details:


A: Voting Rights attached to shares

 


 

Class/type of shares (if possible using 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

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Below 3%

Below 3%

 

0

0

7,045,325

0

3.043%

SUBTOTAL A (based on aggregate voting rights)

Below 3%

Below 3%

0

 

 

7,045,325

 

3.043%


B: Financial Instruments

 


Resulting situation after the triggering transaction


Type of financial instrument

Expiration date

Exercise/Conversion period

No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)

% of voting rights


 

N/A

 






TOTAL (A + B)


Number of voting rights

% of voting rights


 

7,045,325

 

 

 

3.043%

9

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

 


Ameriprise Financial, Inc., which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC, Columbia Wanger Asset Management LLC, Threadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. and Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, which itself controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd, Threadneedle International Ltd and Threadneedle Pensions Ltd.

 

Proxy Voting

 

10

In case of proxy voting: N/A

 

11

Additional information

 

Done at Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, Holbrook House, Station Road, Swindon SN1 1HH on 08/03/2011

 

 

 

This announcement has been issued through the Companies Announcement Service of

The Irish Stock Exchange.

 

 

 


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