RNS Number : 8199F
Premier Foods plc
29 April 2014
 

 

 

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:

Premier Foods PLC

GB00B7N0K053

 

2:    Reason for notification (yes/no)

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

Yes

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying Premier Foods PLC financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

no

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

no

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

no

Other (please specify):

 

no

 

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

    obligation:

Schroders plc

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

N/A

5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold 

      is crossed or reached):

24 April 2014

6. Date on which issuer notified:

28 April 2014

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

Above 11%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:    Notified Details

A:   Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of share  If possible use ISIN code

GB00B7N0K053

 

Situation previous to the triggering transaction

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

24,024,331

24,024,331

 

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

Percentage of
voting rights

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

91,625,457

N/A

91,625,457

N/A

11.125%

 

B:   Qualifying 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

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

 

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

 

Type of financial
instrument

Exercise
price

Expiration
date

Exercise/
Conversion
period

Number of voting
rights instrument
refers to

% of voting rights

 

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Nominal

Delta

N/A

N/A

 

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

91,625,457

11.125%

 

 

 

 

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

 

Cazenove Capital Management Limited            320,400          0.039%

 

Schroder Investment Management Limited       91,305,057     11.086%

 

Proxy Voting:

 

10. Name of the proxy holder:

 

N/A

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

 

N/A

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

 

N/A

 

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 issued share capital amount 823,607,761

 

14. Contact name:

 

Andrew McDonald, General Counsel & Company Secretary

15. Contact telephone number:

 

01727 815 850

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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