Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached:

Essentra Plc

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

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

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

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

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

X

Other (please specify):

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

TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC on behalf of College Retirement Equities Fund ("CREF")

· CREF Stock Account, a registered investment company

Teachers Advisors, Inc. on behalf of TIAA-CREF Funds

· International Equity Fund

· TIAA-CREF Life Funds

Both registered investment companies

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

See Number 3

5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached:

14 November 2014

6. Date on which issuer notified:

24 November 2014

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

Below 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 25 pence

GB00B0744359

7,728,672

7,728,672

7,728,672

7,728,672

0

Below 3%

0%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate

Exercise/Conversion Period

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

% of votingrights

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

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

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date

Exercise/Conversion period

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Nominal

Delta

N/A

N/A

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

7,728,672

Below 3%

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

Essentra plc notifies that as of 24 November 2014 CREF held 2,227,519 shares of Essentra plc. CREF owns these shares through one of its investment accounts, the Stock Account. The total voting shares outstanding of Essentra plc is 260,485,537 bringing CREF's ownership in your company to a 0.885% level.

CREF is a U.S. based investment company, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). CREF has multiple investment accounts, each with separate investment objectives and policies. All assets in the accounts are beneficially owned by CREF, and all the accounts are managed by TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser.

Affiliates of CREF on 24 November 2014 held 5,051,153 shares of Essentra plc. These holdings are owned by the TIAA-CREF Funds ("Funds"), and the TIAA-CREF Life Funds ("Life Funds"), each of which are SEC registered investment companies. The Funds and Life Funds are managed by Teachers Advisors, Inc., an SEC registered investment adviser that is affiliated with TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC. These affiliated funds, aggregated with those of CREF, own a total of 7,278,672 or 2.794% of the outstanding voting shares of Essentra plc. Teachers Advisors, Inc. and TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC follow the same policies when voting these funds and have aggregated the holdings for purposes of this notification

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC/ Teachers Advisors, Inc.

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold:

N/A

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

N/A

13. Additional information:

None

14. Contact name:

Patricia Kendall

15. Contact telephone number:

01908 359100