3rd Nov 2006 17:49
BTG PLC03 November 2006 BTG PLC: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES BTG plc (LSE: BGC) has received notification today in accordance with Sections 198-202 of the Companies Act 1985 that, Fidelity International Ltd and its direct and indirect subsidiaries on behalf of discretionary clients, have an interest in 5,044,231 ordinary 10p shares of BTG, representing 3.34% of the issued share capital of the Company. The registered holders are as follows. Holder Number of shares JP Morgan, Bournemouth 26,313Brown Bros Harrimn Ltd Lux 5,017,928 5,044,241 None of the shares are beneficially owned by Fidelity International Ltd or its direct and indirect subsidiaries. Further details of the, holdings are below as Appendix I Peter MaddoxAssistant Company Secretary Contact for Queries: Andy Burrows Director of Investor RelationsTelephone: 020 7575 1741 APPENDIX I BTG PLC: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1. Notifiable Interest: A. FMR Corp. Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust accounts. B. Fidelity International Limited (FIL) Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST), Fidelity Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited (FIA(K)L), Fidelity Investments Management (Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHK), Fidelity Pension Management (FPM) and Fidelity Investments International (FII), investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients. 2. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of Mr Edward C Johnson 3d, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, MA, 02109, USA, a principal shareholder of Fidelity International Limited. 3. The notifiable interests include interests held on behalf of authorised unit trust schemes in the UK. 4. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the purposes of clarity and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr Edward C Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these notifications on a joint basis. 5. The disclosable interests arise under Section 208(4)(b) of the Act, namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the exercise of such rights, or under Section 203 of the Act respectively. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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