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:

Laird 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:

 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group

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

 See additional information under 13.

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

 10 September 2009

6. Date on which issuer notified:

 11 September 2009

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

 Above the threshold of 10%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares

if possible using the ISIN CODE

Situation previous to the triggering transaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Number of Shares

Number of Voting Rights

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

% of voting rights

Direct

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

 GB00B1VNST91

 9,647,598

 9,647,598

 189,000

 189,000

17,238,122 

 0.107%

 9.710%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Expiration date

Exercise/ Conversion Period

Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.

% of voting rights

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

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Exercise price

Expiration date

Exercise/ Conversion period

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights

 CFD

 474,714

Nominal

Delta

 0.267%

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

 17,901,836

 10.084%

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

Ameriprise Financial, Inc, which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. and Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd. which itself controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd, Threadneedle International Ltd and Threadneedle Pensions Ltd

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

 N/A

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

 N/A

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

N/A

13. Additional information:

14. Contact name:

 Company Secretary, Threadneedle Group

15. Contact telephone number:

 +44 (0) 20 7464 5000