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SAB - Sabmiller Plc - TR-1: Notification of major interests in shares
Sabmiller Plc
JSEALPHA CODE: SAB
ISSUER CODE: SOSAB
ISIN CODE: GB0004835483
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES
Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which
voting rights are attached:
SABMiller plc
Reason for the notification (place an X inside the appropriate bracket/s)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: (X)
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) : ( )
Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:
Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)
Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.) :
Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached
if different):
17 October 2007
Date on which issuer notified:
06 November 2007
Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
Above 3% (L&G)
Notified details:
Voting rights attached to shares
Class / type of shares if possible using the ISIN code GB0004835483: ordinary
shares
Situation previous to the triggering transaction: number of shares: below 3%
Situation previous to the triggering transaction: number of voting rights: below
3%
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Class / type of shares if possible using the ISIN code: GB0004835483: ordinary
shares
Number of shares: direct: 45,949,930
Number of voting rights: direct: 45,949,930
% of voting rights: direct: 3.05%
Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument: N/A
Expiration date
Exercise / conversion period / date
Number of voting rights that may be acquired if instrument is exercised /
converted
% of voting rights
Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights: 45,949,930
% of voting rights: 3.05%
Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
Legal & General Group plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group)
Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (LGIMH) (Direct and
Indirect)
Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) (LGIM)
Legal & General Group plc (Direct) (L&G) (45,949,930 - 3.05% = LGAS, LGPL & PMC)
Legam & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (Direct) (LGIMHD)
Legal & General Insurance Holdings Limited (Direct) (LGIH)
Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited (PMC)
Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (LG&S & LGPL)
Legal & General Pensions Limited (Direct) (LGPL)
Proxy Voting:
Name of the proxy holder:
n/a
Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
n/a
Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
n/a
Additional information:
Notification using the total voting rights figure of 1,504,358,979
Please note that notification to the Company was delayed due to the large number
of disclosures required to be made by L&G following a substantial amount of new
business which came to them in the form of an in-specie transfer.
Contact name:
Bill Warner, Assistant Company Secretary
Contact telephone number:
+44 (0) 1483 264268
Date: 07/11/2007 14:40:01 Produced by the JSE SENS Department.
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