Glanbia PLC Holding(s) in Company (0858V)

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RNS Number : 0858V

Glanbia PLC

31 October 2017

Standard Form TR-1

Standard form for notification of major holdings

 
 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS (to be sent to the relevant 
  issuer and to the Central Bank of Ireland)(i) 
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 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of 
  existing shares to which voting rights are attached(ii) 
  : 
  Glanbia plc 
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 2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate 
  box or boxes): 
  [X] An acquisition or disposal of voting rights 
  [ ] An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments 
  [ ] An event changing the breakdown of voting rights 
  [ ] Other (please specify)(iii) : 
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 3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation(iv) 
  : 
 Name:                                  City and country of registered 
  The Capital Group Companies,           office (if applicable): 
  Inc.                                   Los Angeles, California 90071 U.S.A. 
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 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)(v) 
  : 
  See Box 10 
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 5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached(vi) 
  : 
  27 October 2017 
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 6. Date on which issuer notified: 
  30 October 2017 
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 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: Below 
  7% - Aggregate of voting rights from shares 
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 8. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification 
  obligation: 
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                     % of voting        % of voting       Total of       Total number 
                      rights attached    rights through    both in %      of voting 
                      to shares          financial         (9.A + 9.B)    rights of 
                      (total of          instruments                      issuer(vii) 
                      9.A)               (total of 
                                         9.B.1 + 9.B.2) 
------------------  -----------------  ----------------  -------------  ------------- 
 Resulting 
  situation 
  on the date 
  on which 
  threshold 
  was crossed 
  or reached         6.6080%            0.0000%           6.6080%        296,045,684 
------------------  -----------------  ----------------  -------------  ------------- 
 Position 
  of previous 
  notification 
  (if applicable)    7.0260%            0.0000%           7.0260% 
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 9. Notified details of the resulting situation on the 
  date on which the threshold was crossed or reached(viii) 
  : 
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 A: Voting rights attached to shares 
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 Class/type            Number of voting rights(ix)            % of voting rights 
  of 
  shares 
  ISIN code 
  (if possible) 
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                               Direct             Indirect           Direct                  Indirect 
--------------------  ----------------------  -------------  -------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Ordinary 
  Shares (IE0000669501)                        19,562,747                          6.6080% 
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 SUBTOTAL 
  A                                            19,562,747                          6.6080% 
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 B 1: Financial Instruments according to Regulation 17(1)(a) 
  of the Regulations 
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 Type of financial      Expiration            Exercise/       Number of voting                  % of voting 
  instrument             date(x)               Conversion      rights that                       rights 
                                               Period(xi)      may be acquired 
                                                               if the instrument 
                                                               is exercised/converted. 
---------------------  --------------------  --------------  --------------------------------  --------------- 
 
 
 
                         SUBTOTAL B.1 
                        -----------------------------------  --------------------------------  --------------- 
 
 B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect 
  according to Regulation 17(1)(b) of the Regulations 
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 Type of               Expiration             Exercise/       Physical             Number       % of voting 
  financial             date(x)               Conversion      or cash              of voting     rights 
  instrument                                  Period          settlement(xii)      rights 
                                              (xi) 
--------------------  ---------------------  --------------  -------------------  -----------  --------------- 
 
 
 
                                                              SUBTOTAL 
                                                               B.2 
                                                             -------------------  -----------  --------------- 
 
 
 
 10. Information in relation to the person subject to 
  the notification obligation 
 
  [ ] Person subject to the notification obligation is 
  not controlled by any natural person or legal entity 
  and does not control any other undertaking(s) holding 
  directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) 
  issuer.(xiii) 
 
  [ X ] Full chain of controlled undertakings through 
  which the voting rights and/or the 
  financial instruments are effectively held starting 
  with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal 
  entity(xiv) : 
 Name(xv)             % of voting       % of voting              Total of both 
                       rights if it      rights through           if it equals 
                       equals or is      financial instruments    or is higher 
                       higher than       if it equals             than the notifiable 
                       the notifiable    or is higher             threshold 
                       threshold         than the notifiable 
                                         threshold 
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 The Capital 
  Group Companies, 
  Inc. 
  Holdings by 
  CG Management 
  companies are 
  set out below:           6.6080%              0.0000%                 6.6080% 
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 Capital Research 
  and Management 
  Company(1)               6.6080%              0.0000%                 6.6080% 
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 The Growth Fund 
  of America(2) 
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      1. Wholly Owned subsidiary of The Capital Group Companies, 
       Inc. 
       2. Wholly owned indirect subsidiaries of Capital Research 
       and Management Company 
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 11. In case of proxy voting: [name of the proxy holder] 
  will cease to hold [% and number] voting rights as of 
  [date] 
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 12. Additional information(xvi) : 
  The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CGC") is the parent 
  company of Capital Research and Management Company ("CRMC"). 
  CRMC is a U.S.-based investment management company that 
  manages the American Funds family of mutual funds. CRMC 
  manages equity assets for various investment companies 
  through three divisions, Capital Research Global Investors, 
  Capital International Investors and Capital World Investors. 
  CRMC in turn is the parent company of Capital Group 
  International, Inc. ("CGII"), which in turn is the parent 
  company of five investment management companies ("CGII 
  management companies"): Capital Guardian Trust Company, 
  Capital International, Inc., Capital International Limited, 
  Capital International Sàrl and Capital International 
  K.K. The CGII management companies primarily serve as 
  investment managers to institutional clients. 
  Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of 
  your company for its own account. Rather, the shares 
  reported on this Notification are owned by accounts 
  under the discretionary investment management of one 
  or more of the investment management companies described 
  above. 
 
  The Growth Fund of America ("GFA") is a mutual fund 
  registered in the United States under the Investment 
  Company Act of 1940. GFA is the legal owner of 13,668,044 
  shares (4.617%) of the outstanding shares). 
  GFA has granted proxy voting authority to its investment 
  adviser CRMC. 
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Done at Los Angeles, California on 30 October 2017

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