Holding(s) in Company

SMG PLC 12 August 2005 SCHEDULE 10 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1) Name of Company SMG plc 2) Name of shareholder having a major interest Fidelity Investments 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 Non-Beneficial 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST) BNP Paribas, Paris 273,200 Fidelity Investments International (FII) JP Morgan, Bournemouth 1,657,013 Fidelity International Ltd (FIL) Brown Bros Harrimn Ltd Lux 1,334,689 Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL) JP Morgan, Bournemouth 28,197,387 Fidelity Pension Management (FPM) Bank of New York Brussels 391,700 HSBC Bank Plc 643,500 JP Morgan, Bournemouth 1,641,718 Northern Trust London 1,400,564 State Str Bk and Tr Co Ldnd 2,244,800 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired 2,253,816 6) Percentage of issued class 0.72% 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed N/A 8) Percentage of issued class N/A 9) Class of security Ordinary Shares of 2.5p 10) Date of transaction 11 August 2005 11) Date company informed 12 August 2005 12) Total holding following this notification 37,784,571 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 12.02% 14) Any additional information These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate notifications of interest in the shares and are combined 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 MrEdward 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. 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. 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries Callum Spreng - Tel No: 0141 300 3640 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification George Watt - Group Finance Director 12 August 2005 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

Companies

STV Group (STVG)
UK 100

Latest directors dealings