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:

15 December 2009

Date on which issuer notified: 

16 December 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 - 37,799,506

Number of voting rights - 37,799,506

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction:

Number of shares, direct - 9,646,165

Number of voting rights, direct - 9,646,165

Number of voting rights, indirect - 22,763,959

Percentage of voting rights, direct - 1.41%

Percentage of voting rights, indirect - 3.32%

Total voting rights:

Number of voting rights - 32,410,124

Percentage of voting rights - 4.73%

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

Alliance Bernstein

319,678

Direct

0.04666

Alliance Capital Management

777,078

Direct

0.11343

AXA Financial, Inc

817,471

Indirect

0.11933

AXA France

1,485,033

Indirect

0.21677

AXA IM UK

8,549,409

Direct

1.247957447

AXA IM UK

17,321,638

Indirect

2.53

AXA Rosenberg

3,139,817

Indirect

0.458319167

Total direct

9,646,165

1.40805

Total indirect

22,763,959

3.32286

TOTAL

32,410,124

4.73091