Holding in Company

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:

DCC plc

2. Reason for notification (yes/no)

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

yes

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):______________

3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:

Schroders plc

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):

5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):

11.09.08

6. Date on which issuer notified:

12.09.08

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

Below 3%

B: Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Expiration date

Exercise/ conversion period/date 

No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)

Percentage of voting rights

Total (A+B)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

1,008,651

1.23%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Schroder Investment Management Limited 640,324 0.78%

Schroder Investment Management North America Limited  363,427 0.44%

Schroder &Co Limited 4,900 0.01%

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:

The shares referred to in section 9 are held in portfolios managed by those firms on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.

Schroder Investment Management Limited has a total holding of 2,424,185 shares or 2.96% of which it controls the voting rights in respect of 1,008,651 shares or 1.23% as set out above.

14 Contact name:

Taryn O'Donoghue 

15. Contact telephone name:

020 7658 2959