Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 8206C

Hargreaves Services PLC

19 November 2009

 



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:

Hargreaves Services plc

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
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):	Change in the ISC	Yes

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Gartmore Investment Limited
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	See Section 9
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	11th November 2009
6. Date on which issuer notified:	12th November 2009
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
GB00B0MTC970	987,015	987,015	951,009		951,009		3.585%

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
CFD	N/A	N/A	N/A	370,144	Nominal	Delta
					1.395%

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
1,321,153	4.980%

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

Share Description Fund Managing Co.	Shares Held	% of issued capital	UK Registered Owner	Beneficial Owner
Equities
Hargreaves Service Ord GBP0.10
Gartmore Fund Managers Limited	264,502	0.997%	HSBC Global Custody Nominee UK Ltd	Gartmore Fund Managers Ltd A/C Gartmore UK & Irish Smaller Companies
Gartmore Investment Limited	367,904	1.387%	Nortrust Nominees Limited	Strathclyde Pension Fund
	95,051	0.358%	Gartmore Growth Opportunities	Gartmore Growth Opportunities PLC
	200,408	0.755%	Goldman Sachs Nominees Ltd	The Gartmore UK Small Cap Best Ideas Fund Limited
	24,961	0.094%	Bank of Bermuda Luxembourg	Gartmore Sicav Pan Euro Smaller Companies Fund
	952,826	3.591%
Contract for Difference
Hargreaves Service CFD Contract B0MTC97
Gartmore Investment Limited	370,144	1.395%	Vidacos Nominees Ltd A/C 2303	The Alphagen Volantis Fund Limited
	370,144	1.395%
	1,322,970	4.987%

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:	All figures are based on the Company's issued share capital of 26,530,646 as provided by Exshare E mail contact [e-mail]
14. Contact name:	RDU
15. Contact telephone number:	0207 782 2324

 

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