17th Jan 2006 16:40
17 January 2006Notification of Share InterestSections 198-203 of the Companies Act 19851. We have today received a notice dated 16th January 2006 from an official ofMorgan Stanley Securities Limited (MSSL), the extract of which is as follows:"This notification relates to the ordinary shares of the company (the "shares")and is given in fulfilment of the obligation imposed under Section 198 of theCompanies Act 1985 (The 'Act').We hereby notify you that on 12 January 2006 Morgan Stanley Securities Limited("MSSL") acquired an interest in the shares that resulted in a total holding of8,327,936 shares being approximately 4.69% of the issued share capital of theCompany.We have transferred from time to time 1,959,692 shares to third parties onterms which gave us the right to require the return of an equivalent number ofshares. Accordingly, our interest in 1,959,692 shares is pursuant to Section208 (5) of the Act.MSSL is a member of the Morgan Stanley group of companies. Those groupcompanies which are direct or indirect holding companies of MSSL are, under theterms of section 203 of the Companies Act 1985, each interested by attributionin any shares in which MSSL is interested".They previously notified that they no longer had a disposable interest inCountrywide plc shares reported on 25 February 2005. Their current shareholdingof 8,327,936 shares equates to 4.69% of the total issued share capital of177,434,369 shares.2. We have today received a further notice also dated 16th January 2006 from anofficial of Morgan Stanley Securities Limited, the extract of which is asfollows:"This notification relates to the ordinary shares of the company (the "shares")and is given in fulfilment of the obligation imposed under Section 198 of theCompanies Act 1985 (The 'Act').We hereby notify you that on 13 January 2006 Morgan Stanley Securities Limited("MSSL") disposed of an interest in the shares that resulted in a total holdingof 6,781,755 shares being approximately 3.82% of the issued share capital ofthe Company.We have transferred from time to time 1,764,896 shares to third parties onterms which gave us the right to require the return of an equivalent number ofshares. Accordingly, our interest in 1,764,896 shares is pursuant to Section208 (5) of the Act.MSSL is a member of the Morgan Stanley group of companies. Those groupcompanies which are direct or indirect holding companies of MSSL are, under theterms of section 203 of the Companies Act 1985, each interested by attributionin any shares in which MSSL is interested".They have decreased their holding from 8,327,936 shares reported above to6,781,755 shares, which equates to 3.82% of the issued share capital.Director/Company SecretaryCountrywide plcENDCOUNTRYWIDE PLCRelated Shares:
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