20th Mar 2007 07:01
Character Group PLC20 March 2007 The Character Group plc (the "Company") The Company has today received notifications from Directors who hold 3% or moreof the voting rights in the Company of their current holdings of voting rightsin the Company by way of initial notification under the Financial ServicesAuthority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules ("DTR"): Number of ordinary Number of voting % of voting shares of 5p each rights rightsDirector ("Ordinary Shares")R. King 1 3,845,428 3,845,428 8.43K.P. Shah 2 5,645,000 5,645,000 12.38J.J. Diver 1,690,640 1,690,640 3.71J.J.P. Kissane 3 1,470,300 1,470,300 3.22The Trustees of the TOPS pension fund 4 725,000 725,000 1.59Orbis Pension Trustees Limited 5 285,000 285,000 0.62 (Notes: 1. included in the interests of R. King are his interests in1,885,428 Ordinary Shares/voting rights held by Cedarberg Investments Limitedand 320,000 Ordinary Shares/voting rights held by his spouse, Mrs M.H. King; 2. included in the interests of K.P. Shah are the interests ofSarissa Holdings Limited in 5,620,000 Ordinary Shares/voting rights; 3. included in the interests of J J P Kissane his interests in15,300 Ordinary Shares/voting rights held by his spouse, Mrs B Kissane 4. each of R. King, K.P. Shah and J.J. Diver are beneficiaries underthese pension scheme arrangements and are each, accordingly, interested in thepension scheme's holding of Ordinary Shares/voting rights; 5. Orbis Pension Trustees Limited is the Trustee of the Company'sEmployee Share Ownership Trust. Each of R. King, K.P. Shah, J.J.P. Kissane andJ.J. Diver is deemed to be interested in such Ordinary Shares/voting rights byvirtue of being within the class of beneficiaries defined by such Trust. In accordance with the DTR, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue as atthe date of this notice is 46,587,909. The Company holds 979,322 OrdinaryShares in Treasury which do not carry any voting rights. Therefore, the totalnumber of ordinary shares carrying voting rights in Character Group is45,608,587. The above figure of 45,608,587 may be used by shareholders as the denominatorfor the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notifytheir interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the DTR. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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