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:

24 August 2009

Date on which issuer notified: 

26 August 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 - 33,500,188

Number of voting rights - 33,500,188

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction:

Number of shares, direct - 8,649,964

Number of voting rights, direct - 8,649,964

Number of voting rights, indirect - 26,350,759

Percentage of voting rights, direct - 1.27%

Percentage of voting rights, indirect - 3.87%

Total voting rights:

Number of voting rights - 35,000,723

Percentage of voting rights - 5.15%

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

1,320,959

Direct

0.19418

AXA Colonia Konzern

15,937

Indirect 

0.00234

AXA France

1,485,033

Indirect

0.21830

AXA IM UK

6,932,381

Direct

1.01907

AXA IM UK

17,781,998

Indirect

2.613727898

AXA Rosenberg

396,624

Direct

0.06

AXA Rosenberg

7,067,791

Indirect 

1.038973159

Total direct

8,649,964

1.27155

Total indirect

26,350,759

3.87359

TOTAL

35,000,723

5.14515