Holding in Company

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC
28 August 2007





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:  Smurfit Kappa Group Plc

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

(u )    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
Corp and Fidelity International 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: 22 August 2007

6.         Date on which issuer notified; 24 August 2007

7.         Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 4%

8.         Notified details:


A) Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares Situation previous to the       Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
(if possible using   Triggering transaction
the ISIN CODE)       Number of       Number of       Number of shares Number of voting rights    % of voting rights
                     Shares          Voting rights
                                                     Indirect         Direct    Indirect         Direct Indirect
IE00B1RR8406         8,799,955       8,799,955       8,699,955                  8,699,955               3.99

SUBTOTAL A (based on 8,799,955       8,799,955       8,699,955        8,699,955                  3.99
aggregate voting
rights)



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


                                       SUBTOTAL B (in
                                       relation to all
                                       expiration dates)


Total (A+B)                                           number of voting rights    % of voting rights




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 Corp and Fidelity International Limited
will cease to hold 100,000 voting rights as of 24 August 2007.

11.       Additional information:

Done at (place) on (date).




























Annex to the standard form TR-1

a)         Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification
obligation:
Full name (including legal form for legal entities)      FMR Corp and Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
Contact address (registered office for legal entities)   FMR Corp - 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA, 02109
                                                         USA

                                                         FIL - Pembroke Hall, 42 Crow Lane, Pembroke, HM19
                                                         Bermuda
Phone number                                             44 (0) 1737 837 149
Other useful information (at least legal representative  Company Secretary
for legal persons)

b)         Identity of the notifier, if applicable:
Full name                                                FMR Corp and Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
Contact address                                          Windmill Court XTW2B, Millfield Lane, Lower
                                                         Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 6RB
Phone number                                             44 (0) 1737 837 149
Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship   Authorised to make this filing under power of
with the person or legal entity subject to the           attorney
notification obligation)

c)         Additional information




Schedule

Issuer name: SMURFIT KAPPA GROUP PLC

Current ownership percentage:                          3.99%

Total shares held:                                 8,699,955

Shares in issue:                                 217,765,713


                                                               MANAGEMENT
                                               SHARES HELD       COMPANY     NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME

Fidelity International Limited (FIL) is the           67,872       FCL       STATE STREET BANK AND TR CO
parent
holding company for various direct and               283,800       FII       JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH
indirect
subsidiaries, including Fidelity Fund                 53,400       FIJ       MASTER TRUST BANK OF JAPAN
Management
Limited (FFML), Fidelity Investment Services         128,825       FIL       BROWN BROS HARRIMN LTD LUX
Ltd
(FISL), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST), Fidelity        1,687,700      FISL       JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH
Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited                  16,400      FMRCO      BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN AND CO
(FIAKL),
Fidelity Investments Management (Hong Kong)        5,291,058      FMRCO      JPMORGAN CHASE BANK
Limited (FIMHK), Fidelity Pension Management         855,900      FMTC       STATE STREET BANK AND TR CO
(FPM), Fidelity Investments Japan (FIJ) and          315,000       FPM       JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH
Fidelity
Investments International (FII), investment
managers
for various non-US investment companies and
institutional clients.

FMR Corp is the parent holding company of
Fidelity
Management & Research Company (FMRCO),
investment
manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity
Management Trust
Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank
which acts as
a trustee or investment manager of various
pension and
trust accounts.


















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