Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 5463Q

Home Retail Group Plc

01 September 2014

 

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii			Home Retail Group plc
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights				ü
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached				N/A
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments				N/A
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights				N/A
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: iii		Royal Bank of Canada
4. Full name of shareholder(s)  (if different from 3.):iv		RBC cees Trustee Limited Royal Bank of Canada Investment Management (U.K.) Limited RBC Trust Company (International) Limited RBC Capital Markets, LLC RBC Trust Company (Delaware) Limited
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v		27 August 2014
6. Date on which issuer notified:		29 August 2014
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii		Over 7%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

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 x

Direct

Direct xi

Indirect xii

Direct

Indirect

Ordinary 10p

50,596,094

50,596,094

59,305,961

59,305,961

7.29%

(GB00B19NKB76)

American Depositary Receipt

33,042

132,168

33,288

133,152

0.02%

(US43731T1025) Conversion ratio shares to ADR 4:1

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Expiration date xiii

Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv

Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.

% of voting rights

N/a

N/a

N/a

N/a

N/a

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Exercise price

Expiration date xvii

Exercise/ Conversion period xviii

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights xix, xx

N/a

N/a

N/a

N/a

N/a

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

59,439,113

7.31%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi
RBC cees Trustee Limited, Royal Bank of Canada Investment Management (U.K.) Limited, RBC Trust Company (International) Limited, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and RBC Trust Company (Delaware) Limited are wholly owned indirect subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Canada. RBC cees Trustee Limited acting as Trustee for the Employee Share Trust for Home Retail Group plc The allocation of holdings are held as follows: ·    RBC cees Trustee Limited held on behalf of the Employee Share Trust - 59,285,579 (6.219%) ·    RBC Trust Company (International) Limited - 17,200 ·      RBC Investment Management (UK) Ltd - 3,182 ·      RBC Capital Markets, LLC - 127,184 (ADR's conversion 4:1) ·      RBC Trust Company (Delaware) Ltd - 5,968 (ADR's conversion 4:1) Note:-  (The overall aggregated position held represents 7.31% of the issued share capital.)
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:		N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:		N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:		N/A
13. Additional information:	Calculated on issues share capital of 813,445,001 shares
14. Contact name:	Scott Roberts or Graham Horsnell
15. Contact telephone number:	[phone] / 283292

 

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