20th Mar 2006 13:23
Britvic plc20 March 2006 Britvic plc 20 March 2006 HOLDING(S) IN THE COMPANY In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.7, I hereby inform you that Britvic plc (the"Company") was notified on 20 March 2006 pursuant to section 198 of theCompanies Act 1985, that the following entities have the following interests inthe ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of the Company (the "OrdinaryShares"): The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ("GS Inc") of 85 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004,USA, as at 15 March 2006, had an interest in a total of 8,460,241 OrdinaryShares, by attribution only, representing 3.93% of the Company's issued sharecapital. The interest in 8,460,241 Ordinary Shares consisted of: (i) an interest in 500 Ordinary Shares (representing 0.0002% of the Company'sissued share capital) arising from an interest held by Goldman, Sachs & Co., awholly-owned direct subsidiary of GS Inc, acting as custodian for its customers;and (ii) an interest in 8,459,741 Ordinary Shares (representing 3.93% of theCompany's issued share capital) arising from a beneficial interest held byGoldman Sachs International, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of GS Inc. AXA S.A. of 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris, France and its group companies wereinterested in 27,915,157 ordinary shares of 20p each in the capital of theCompany (the "Ordinary Shares"), being represented by a beneficial interest in17,924,410 Ordinary Shares and a non-beneficial interest of 9,990,747 OrdinaryShares, which represents 8.34% and 4.65% respectively of the Company's issuedshare capital. John Price, Company SecretaryBritvic plc This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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