Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

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

Hammerson plc

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

 Yes

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

 No

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments

 No

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

 No

Other (please specify):

 No

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

Daiwa Securities Group Inc.

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

Daiwa Asset Management Co. Ltd

Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd

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

5 October 2011

6. Date on which issuer notified:

10 October 2011

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

3%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type ofshares

if possible usingthe ISIN CODE

Situation previousto the triggeringtransaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

NumberofShares

NumberofVotingRights

Numberof shares

Number of votingrights

% of voting rights

Direct

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

 Ordinary shares

GB0004065016

21,788,243

21,788,243

 0

0

21,254,593

2.99%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate

Exercise/ConversionPeriod

Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.

% of votingrights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exerciseprice

Expirationdate

Exercise/Conversionperiod

Number of votingrights instrumentrefers to

% of voting rights

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

 21,254,593

2.99%

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

Daiwa Asset Management Co.Ltd. holds 21,061,798 shares of Hammerson plc.

Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd holds 192,795 shares of Hammerson plc.

Daiwa Asset Management Co.Ltd and Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd are subsidiaries and wholly owned by Daiwa Securities Group Inc.

Daiwa Asset Management Co.Ltd. holds the right to directly exercise the voting rights of Hammerson plc. and will exercise its voting rights independently from Daiwa Securities Group Inc.

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the 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:

Based on total number of voting rights in Hammerson plc of 711,410,347

14. Contact name:

 Sarah Booth

15. Contact telephone number:

 020 7887 1000