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Rank Group PLC 18 March 2002 DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS 1) NAME OF COMPANY THE RANK GROUP PLC 2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST FMR CORP FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL LTD 3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18 NOTIFIABLE INTEREST OF COMPANIES IN (2) ABOVE AND THEIR SUBSIDIARIES 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. SEE LETTER BELOW 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. 6) ( N/A %) of issued Class 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed 8) ( N/A %) of issued Class 9) Class of security ORDINARY SHARES 10) Date of transaction 13 MAR 2002 11) Date company informed 18 MAR 2002 12) Total holding following this notification 23,919,570 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 4.04% 14) Any additional information 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries CLARE DUFFILL TEL: 020 7706 1111 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Date of Notification .....18 MARCH 2002................... Amendment #2 NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 - - U.K. COMPANIES ACT 1. Company in which shares are held: Rank Group Plc 2. Notifiable Interest: Ordinary Shares (A) FMR Corp. 82 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109 Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings). (B) Fidelity International Limited (FIL) P.O. Box HM 670 Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL) and Fidelity Pension Management (FPM), investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings.) 3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of: Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d 82 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109 A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited. 4. The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized unit trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from reporting pursuant to Section 209 (I)(h) of the Companies Act 1985. 5. These notifications of disposable interests constitute separate notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these notifications on a joint basis. 6. The disclosable interests arise under section 208 (4) (b) of the Act, namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively. Schedule A Security: Rank Group Plc Amendment No 3 MANAGEMENT SHARES HELD COMPANY NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME (Ordinary Shares) 1,970,710 FMRCO Chase Nominees Limited 1,981,294 FMRCO State Street Nominees Limited 9,132,475 FISL Chase Nominees Ltd 266,400 FPM Chase Nominees Ltd 328,400 FPM HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited 128,700 FPM Citibank 535,700 FPM Bankers Trust 374,400 FIL MSS Nominees Ltd 789,600 FIL Chase Nominees Ltd 1,236,200 FIL Nortrust Nominees Ltd 49,000 FIL Bankers Trust 1,035,300 FIL Bank of New York London 456,200 FIL Northern Trust 5,635,191 FIL HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited Total Ordinary Shares 23,919,570 Current ownership percentage: 4.04% Shares in issue: 591,888,560 Change in holdings since last filing: +718,143 ordinary shares This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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