Holding(s) in Company

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

Electrocomponents 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.

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

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification 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 onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached:

06 February 2013

6. Date on which issuer notified:

08 February 2013

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

Above the threshold of 5%

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

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

GB000309442

 N/A

78,278 78,278 22,304,805 0.018% 5.091%

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

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

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

22,383,083

5.109%

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

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

N/A

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:

Registered Owner

Chase Nominees Ltd

A/c41407

2,000,000

State Street Nominees Limited

A/c XC7N

1,398,960

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited

A/c 683182

849,704

The Bank of New York (Nominees) Ltd

A/c PTG 15303/09997799

113,165

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd

A/c 811056

103,443

Nortrust Nominees Ltd

A/c BBH05

307,058

William& Glyns (Isle of Man Nominees Ltd

A/c 301780

136,854

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c ZLA01

400,000

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c ZLA03

673,079

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c27642

78,278

Littledown Nominees

A/c 10479

10,341

Mellon Nominees (UK) Ltd

A/c WWSF0004002

340,210

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c18667

710,619

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c 10469

474,406

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c10496

9,107,279

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c 10492

1,092,698

Litttledown Nominees Ltd

A/c 10491

3,626,989

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c 10495

960,000

14. Contact name:

Ian Haslegrave

15. Contact telephone number:

01865 207491

16. Date:

12 February 2013