Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number:8097Q
Taylor & Francis Group PLC
13 October 2003


NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK COMPANIES ACT

1. Company in which shares are held:     Taylor & Francis Group Plc

2. Notifiable Interest:     Ordinary Shares

     A     FMR Corp
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           Parent holding company of Fidelity Management Trust Company (FMTC),
           a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment
           manager of various pension and trust accounts. (See Schedule A for 
           listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings.)

     B     Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
           P.O. BOX HM 670
           Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

           Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
           including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL)and Fidelity Pension
           Management (FPM), investment managers for various non-US investment 
           companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for listing of
           Registered Shareholders and their holdings).

3.     The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of

           Mr Edward C Johnson 3d
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International
           Limited.

4.     The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized
       unit trust schemes in the U.K. notwithstanding the exemption from 
       reporting pursuant to Section 209 (l) (h) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.     These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
       notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely 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 Mr Edward 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.

6.     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.





Schedule A                                                  Amendment # 8
Security: Taylor & Francis Group Plc
 
                                         MANAGEMENT 
                             SHARES HELD  COMPANY    NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME
(Ordinary Shares)          

                                7,000     FMTC     State Street Nominees Ltd.
                                5,300     FMTC     Brown Brothers Harriman
                                3,700     FMTC     State Street Bank & Trust
                               16,026     FISL     Chase Nominees Ltd
                              603,655     FPM      Chase Nominees Ltd
                              554,351     FPM      Bankers Trust
                               31,400     FPM      MSS Nominees Ltd
                               21,960     FIL      Bankers Trust
                              535,100     FIL      MSS Nominees Ltd
                               75,140     FIL      BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
                               56,700     FIL      RBS Trust Bank
                               20,900     FIL      Bank of New York, Europe
                               70,610     FIL      Chase Nominees Ltd
                              168,800     FIL      Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                              448,602     FIL      Northern Trust
                               93,874     FIL      JP Morgan
                              138,100     FIL      Citibank
                               32,000     FIL      Bank of New York - London
                               68,400     FIL      Chase Manhattan Bank London
                              160,060     FIL      State Street Bank & Trust
                              225,800     FIL      Deutsche Bank
                               19,400     FIL      Mellon Nominees Ltd
                                6,400     FIL      Brown Brothers Harriman Ltd LUX
                               50,298     FIL      Bank of New York, Brussels





 

Total Ordinary Shares       3,413,576 

Current ownership percentage:   3.99%

Shares in issue:           85,620,180

Change in holdings since last filing: (398,371) ordinary shares



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