Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 7148K

Smiths Group PLC

23 December 2008

 



Form TR-1 with annex. FSA Version 2.1 updated April 2007

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:		Smiths Group 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
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):______________
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	AXA S.A.  25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	22/12/2008
6. Date on which issuer notified:	23/12/2008
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	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	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
ORD - GB00B1WY2338	19,632,380	19,632,380	4,665,055	4,665,055	14,576,598	1.20	3.75

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)	Percentage of voting rights

Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
19,241,653	4.95%

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

Name of the Company/Fund  Number of Shares  % of Issued Share Capital Alliance Capital Management 516,804 Direct 0.13285 AXA 790,230 Direct 0.20314 AXA Australia 9,900 Indirect 0.00254 AXA Colonia Konzern 1,800 Direct 0.00046 AXA Financial, Inc. 11,719,702 Indirect 3.012757409 AXA Framlington 888,923 Indirect 0.23 AXA France 1,800,188 Indirect 0.462770276 AXA IM UK 1,544,013 Direct 0.396915946 AXA IM UK 143,276 Indirect 0.036831639 AXA Rosenberg 14,609 Indirect 0.003755503 AXA Winterthur 1,801,807 Direct 0.463186469 Sun Life International (IOM) Limited 10,401 Direct 0.002673762 Total Direct 4,665,055 1.19924 Total Indirect 14,576,598 3.74717 TOTAL 19,241,653 4.94641

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of 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:
14 Contact name:	Kyere Tabiri
15. Contact telephone name:	020 7003 1510

 

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