Holding(s) in Company

 

TIDMHWH 
 
RNS Number : 9097A 
Hanson Westhouse Holdings PLC 
16 October 2009 
 

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| TR-1: Notification of Major Interest in Shares                              | 
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying   |    Hanson Westhouse Holdings | 
| issuer of existing shares to which voting     |                          plc | 
| rights are attached:                          |                              | 
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| 2. Reason for notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):       | 
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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                       |   Yes    | 
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| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments    |          | 
| which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to   |          | 
| which voting rights are attached                                  |          | 
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| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic   |          | 
| effect to qualifying financial instruments                        |          | 
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| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                  |          | 
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| Other (please specify):                                           |          | 
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| 3. Full name of person(s) subject to   |              Hargreave Hale Limited | 
| notification obligation:               |                                     | 
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if     |               Discretionary clients | 
| different from 3):                     |                                     | 
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| 5. Date of transaction (and date on    |                     14 October 2009 | 
| which the threshold is crossed or      |                                     | 
| reached if different):                 |                                     | 
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified:      |                     15 October 2009 | 
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or |                                  5% | 
| reached:                               |                                     | 
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| 8: Notified Details                                                                                      | 
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares                                                                      | 
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| Class/type of | Situation previous        | Resulting situation after the triggering                     | 
| shares        | to the triggering         | transaction                                                  | 
| If possible   | transaction               |                                                              | 
| use ISIN code |                           |                                                              | 
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|               | Number of     | Number    | Number of | Number of voting         | Percentage of         | 
|               | shares        | of        | shares    | rights                   | voting rights         | 
|               |               | voting    |           |                          |                       | 
|               |               | rights    |           |                          |                       | 
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|               |               |           |           | Direct        | Indirect | Direct    | Indirect  | 
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| JE00B4N02Q47  | 277,500       | 277,500   |           | 1,027,500     |          | 1,027,500 | 8.9666%   | 
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| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                  | 
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                 | 
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| Type of       | Expiration    | Exercise/     | No. of voting        | Percentage of | 
| financial     | date          | conversion    | rights that          | voting rights | 
| instrument    |               | period/date   | may be               |               | 
|               |               |               | acquired (if         |               | 
|               |               |               | the                  |               | 
|               |               |               | instrument           |               | 
|               |               |               | exercised/converted) |               | 
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|               |               |               |                      |               | 
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| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial               | 
| Instruments                                                                                 | 
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                        | 
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| Type of      | Exercise | Expiration | Exercise/   | No. of voting        | Percentage      | 
| financial    | price    | date       | conversion  | rights that may      | of voting       | 
| instrument   |          |            | period/date | be acquired (if      | rights          | 
|              |          |            |             | the instrument       |                 | 
|              |          |            |             | exercised/converted) |                 | 
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|              |          |            |             |                      | Nominal | Delta | 
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|              |          |            |             |                      |         |       | 
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| Total (A+B+C)                                                               | 
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| Number of voting rights              | Percentage of voting rights          | 
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| 1,027,500                            | 8.9666%                              | 
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or | 
| the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:              | 
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| 600,000 of these shares are for unit trusts operated by Marlborough Fund    | 
| Managers Ltd for who Hargreave Hale Ltd manages the portfolio of            | 
| investments on a discretionary basis.                                       | 
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| Proxy Voting:                                                               | 
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| 10. Name of proxy holder:            |                                      | 
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy    |                                      | 
| holder will cease to hold:           |                                      | 
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will  |                                      | 
| cease to hold voting rights:         |                                      | 
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| 13. Additional information:          | The percentage holding above is       | 
|                                      | calculated on 11,459,196 shares in    | 
|                                      | issue.                                | 
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| 14 Contact name:                     | David Clueit                          | 
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| 15. Contact telephone name:          | 01253 754739                          | 
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