TR-1: Notification of Major Interest in Shares

RNS Number : 2586I
Smart Metering Systems PLC
07 December 2015
 

07 December 2015

 

Smart Metering Systems plc

("SMS" or "the Company")

 

 Notification of Major Interest in Shares

 

Smart Metering Systems plc (AIM: SMS.L) announces as follows:

 

 

For filings with the FCA include the annex


For filings with issuer exclude the annex



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

Smart Metering Systems 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


An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments


An event changing the breakdown of voting rights


Other (please specify):



3. Full name of person(s) subject to the
notification obligation:
iii

Schroders plc

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


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

04.12.15

6. Date on which issuer notified:

07.12.15

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or
reached:
vi, vii

Below 10%



 

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


9,373,827

9,373,827

8,193,827

N/A

8,193,827

N/A

9.516%

Ordinary

GB00B4X1RC86

 


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







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

 





 

 

Nominal

Delta




Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

8,193,827

9.516%



 

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

Schroder Investment Management Limited                    8,193,827                9.516%

 


Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:


11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:


12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:




13. Additional information:

The shares referred to in section 9 are held in portfolios managed by those firms on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements. This disclosure has been calculated based on issue share capital amount 86,108,712.

14. Contact name:

 

Chloe Talbot

15. Contact telephone number:

+44 207 658 6000

 

 

About Smart Metering Systems Plc

 

SMS expanded its services into the electricity market through the acquisition of Utility Partnership Limited in April 2014. The Company can now provide a fully integrated service from beginning to end to cover the installation of a gas/electricity supply/connection to the procurement, installation and management of a gas or electricity meter asset to the collection and management of customer data and ongoing energy management services. Longer term the Company also has additional applications for water and LPG.

 

Following its listing, the Company is now part of the FTSE AIM 50 index. For more information on SMS please visit the Company's website: http://www.sms-plc.com

 


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