Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 5370C

Persimmon PLC

08 March 2011

 

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:		Persimmon PLC
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			Yes
An acquisition or disposal of 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):___________________________			No
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):	See additional information under 13.
5. Date of transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	04 March 2011
6. Date on which issuer notified:	08 March 2011
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Above the threshold of 5%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use 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		Percentage of voting rights
			Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
GB0006825383        N/A N/A 104,037 104,037 15,217,154 0.034%                         5.053%

B: Qualifying 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 is exercised/converted.	Percentage 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	No. of voting rights instrument refers to	Percentage of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
15,321,191	5.087%

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

Ameriprise Financial, Inc., which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of Columbia Management Investment Advisers, Columbia Wanger Asset Management, 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. Name of 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:	Registered Owner Royal Trust Corp of Canada                        A/c 719306 211,132 The Bank Of New York ( Nominees ) Limited         A/c PTG 468 72,270 Columbia Management Investment Advisors                                               A/c 293,465 Chase Nominees Ltd                                          A/c 75102 20,000 KDTC KAS Depositary Trust Company                 A/c 223700533 425,047 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 02891 7,229,680 The Bank Of New York ( Nominees ) Limited         A/c 52260 345,721 The Bank Of New York ( Nominees ) Limited         A/c 52266 324,551 The Bank Of New York ( Nominees ) Limited         A/c 52286 459,543 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 27642 104,037 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 10478 19,280 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 10479 7,873 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 07196 50,423 Roy Nominees                                      A/c 104450 91,677 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 18668 455,910 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 10491 4,824,764 Littledown Nominees Ltd                           A/c 30337 35,818 Littledown Nominees Ltd                            A/c 31348 350,000
14 Contact name:	Stacey Dryburgh, Threadneedle group
15. Contact telephone name:	[phone]

 

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