Holding(s) in Company

 

TIDMROK TIDMLLOY 
 
RNS Number : 3049K 
Rok PLC 
16 April 2010 
 
 
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                     | 
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the   | ROK plc                      | 
| underlying issuer of existing      |                              | 
| shares to which voting rights are  |                              | 
| attached:                          |                              | 
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| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or     | 
| boxes):                                                               | 
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|                                                               |  X    | 
| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                   |       | 
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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  | Lloyds Banking Group plc     | 
| to the notification obligation:    |                              | 
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if | See Section 9                | 
| different from 3.):                |                              | 
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| 5. Date of the transaction and     | 13 April 2010                | 
| date on which the threshold is     |                              | 
| crossed or reached:                |                              | 
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified:  | 15 April 2010                | 
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are        | Direct / Indirect holdings   | 
| crossed or reached:                | decreased to below 10%       | 
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| 8. Notified details:                                                                                            | 
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares                                                                             | 
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| Class/type   | Situation previous               | Resulting situation after the triggering                      | 
| of           | to the triggering                | transaction                                                   | 
| shares       | transaction                      |                                                               | 
| if           |                                  |                                                               | 
| possible     |                                  |                                                               | 
| using        |                                  |                                                               | 
| the ISIN     |                                  |                                                               | 
| CODE         |                                  |                                                               | 
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|              | Number                | Number   | Number   | Number of            | % of  voting rights         | 
|              | of                    | of       | of       | voting               |                             | 
|              | Shares                | Voting   | shares   | rights               |                             | 
|              |                       | Rights   |          |                      |                             | 
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|              |                       |          | Direct   | Direct  | Indirect   | Direct  | Indirect          | 
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| Ord 2p       |            |                     |          |         |            |         |        |          | 
| ISIN         | 19,671,893 | 19,671,893          | 276,497  | 276,497 | 17,593,243 | 0.154%  | 9.812% |          | 
| GB00B1WL0527 |            |                     |          |         |            |         |        |          | 
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|              |            |          |          |          |         |            |         |        |          | 
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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/      | Number of       | % of voting | 
| financial       | date       | Conversion     | voting          | rights      | 
| instrument      |            | Period         | rights that may |             | 
|                 |            |                | be              |             | 
|                 |            |                | acquired if the |             | 
|                 |            |                | instrument is   |             | 
|                 |            |                | exercised/      |             | 
|                 |            |                | converted.      |             | 
|                 |            |                |                 |             | 
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| N/A             |            |                |                 |             | 
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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/  | Number of   | % of               | 
| financial  | price    | date       | Conversion | voting      | voting             | 
| instrument |          |            | period     | rights      | rights             | 
|            |          |            |            | instrument  |                    | 
|            |          |            |            | refers to   |                    | 
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|            |          |            |            |             |  Nominal   |Delta  | 
|            |          |            |            |             |            |       | 
+            +          +            +            +             +------------+-------+ 
|            |          |            |            |             |            |       | 
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| Total (A+B+C)                                                     | 
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| Number of voting rights            | Percentage of voting rights  | 
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| 17,869,740                         | 9.966%                       | 
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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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| 15,310,476 shares (8.539%) are under the control of Scottish Widows         | 
| Investment Partnership Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Widows    | 
| Group Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Bank plc, a wholly owned | 
| subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group plc (Indirect Interests).                | 
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| Proxy Voting:                                                     | 
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder:      |             N/A              | 
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy  |             N/A              | 
| holder will cease to hold:         |                              | 
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder     |             N/A              | 
| will cease to hold voting rights:  |                              | 
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| 13. Additional information:        | Notification using the total | 
|                                    | voting rights figure of      | 
|                                    | 179,310,087                  | 
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| 14. Contact name:                  |  Matthew Wilson              | 
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| 15. Contact telephone number:      | 0113 235 7729                | 
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