Holding in Company

RNS Number : 3832G

Ryanair Holdings PLC

21 October 2008

 

Standard Form TR-1
Voting rights attached to shares- Article 12(1) of directive 2004/109/EC
Financial instruments - Article 11(3) of the Commission Directive 2007/14/EC

1.    Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:  Ryanair Holdings Plc

2.    Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

[X]    an acquisition or disposal of voting rights 

[ ]     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 

3.    Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: FMR LLC and FIL Limited and their direct subsidiaries

4.    Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):

5.     Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: 17 October 2008

6.    Date on which issuer notified; 21 October 2008

7.     Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 7%

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
IE00B1GKF381	102,937,903	102,937,903	104,110,826	104,110,826		7.06
SUBTOTAL A (based on aggregate voting rights)	102,937,903	102,937,903	104,110,826	104,110,826		7.06

B) Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration Date	Exercise/Conversion Period/ Date	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted	% of voting rights
		SUBTOTAL B (in relation to all expiration dates)

Total (A+B)	number of voting rights	% of voting rights
	104,110,826	7.06

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

10.    In case of proxy voting: FMR LLC and FIL Limited will acquire 1,172,923 voting rights as of 17 October 2008.

11.    Additional information: None

Fidelity
Issuer name:	Ryanair Holdings Plc
Current ownership percentage:	7.08%
Total shares held:	104,110,826
Issued voting right capital:	1,472,942,713
	SHARES HELD	NOMINEE	MANAGEMENT COMPANY
FIL Limited (FIL) is the parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including FIL Fund Management Limited (FFML), FIL Investment Services Ltd (FISL), FIL Gestion (FIGEST), FIL Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited (FIAKL), FIL Investments Management (Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHK), FIL Pension Management (FPM), FIL Investments Japan (FIJ) and FIL Investments International (FII), investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients.   FMR LLC is the parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company (FMTC) and Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company (PGATC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust accounts and Pyramis Global Advisors LLC (PGALLC).	3,350,405 176,200 533,000 353,400 9,956,420 2,316,300 324,400 31,531,500 2,275,688 6,472,477 23,022,072 2,419,800 358,500 1,254,200 2,138,869 1,253,080 14,100,194 1,493,710 780,611	BANK OF NEW YORK BRUSSELS BANK OF NEW YORK BRUSSELS BNP PARIBAS, PARIS BNP PARIBAS, PARIS (C) BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN AND CO CDC FINANCE CITIBANK LONDON JP MORGAN CHASE BANK JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH MASTER TRUST BANK OF JAPAN NORTHERN TRUST LONDON STATE STR BK AND TR CO LNDN (S STATE STREET BANK AND TR CO BROWN BROS HARRIMAN LTD LUX JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH (C) BROWN BROS HARRIMN LTD LUX (C)	FIL FPM FIL FIL FMRCO FIGEST FPM FMRCO FII FIL FISL FPM FIJ FPM FPM FMRCO FIL FIL FIL

This announcement has been issued through the Companies Announcement Service of

The Irish Stock Exchange.

 

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