Holding(s) in Company

Reason for notification:

Acquisition or disposal of voting rights

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

AXA SA, 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies

Date of the transaction:

2 March 2009

Date on which issuer notified: 

3 March 2009

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

5%

Voting rights attached to shares:

Class/type of shares - GB0005758098

Situation previous to the triggering transaction:

Number of shares - 32,504,014

Number of voting rights - 32,504,014

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction:

Number of shares, direct - 7,982,184

Number of voting rights, direct - 7,982,184

Number of voting rights, indirect - 25,538,990

Percentage of voting rights, direct - 1.20%

Percentage of voting rights, indirect - 3.84%

Total voting rights:

Number of voting rights - 33,521,174

Percentage of voting rights - 5.04%

Contact name

Kyere Tabiri

Contact telephone number

020 7003 1510

Name of the company/fund

Number of shares

Direct or indirect

% of issued share capital

AXA

1,394,524

Direct

0.20951

AXA Financial Inc

1,158

Indirect

0.00017

AXA Framlington 

16,408,217

Indirect

2.46516

AXA Framlington Blue Chip

500,000

Indirect

0.07512

AXA France

19,748

Indirect

0.002966932

AXA IM UK

6,133,350

Direct

0.92

AXA IM UK

693,081

Indirect

0.104128223

AXA Rosenberg

281,941

Direct

0.042358707

AXA Rosenberg

7,916,786

Indirect 

1.18941488

AXA Winterthur

172,369

Direct

0.025896652

Total direct

7,982,184

1.19924

Total indirect

25,538,990

3.83697

TOTAL

33,521,174

5.03621