Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 3548W

Marston's PLC

27 July 2009

 



TR-1:   notification of major interests in shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	Marston's PLC
2. Reason for the notification   (please tick the appropriate box or boxes)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		Χ
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 the notification obligation:	Lloyds Banking Group plc
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	See sec 9
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	23 July 2009
6. Date on which issuer notified:	27 July 2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Reduction to below 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 viii	Number of shares	Number of voting rights ix		% of voting rights
			Direct	Direct  x	Indirect xi	Direct	Indirect
Ord 7.375p GB00B1JQDM80	4,206,346	4,206.346	7,784,647	2,296,471	4,417,868	1.428%	2.748%

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction xii
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date xiii	Exercise/ Conversion Period/ Date 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

Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
6,714,339	4.177%

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

6,806,997 shares representing 2,008,064 voting rights (1.249%) are under the control of Star Securities Limited, a 50% owned Joint Venture of Uberior Investments plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of Scotland plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBOS plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group plc (Direct Interests). 10,939,463 Shares representing 3,227,141 voting rights (2.007%) are held by State Street Nominees Ltd. Shares are under the control of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Widows Group Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Bank plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group plc (Indeidrect Interests)

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:	Notification using the total rights figure of 160,761,002
14. Contact name:	Kenny Melville
15. Contact telephone number:	0131 243 8671

 

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