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Peninsular & Oriental Steam Nav Co21 November 2005 SCHEDULE 10 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1) NAME OF COMPANY THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY 2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED 3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. SEE BELOW 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. 6) Percentage of issued Class 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed 8) Percentage of issued Class 9) Class of security DEFERRED STOCK 10) Date of transaction 11) Date company informed 21 NOVEMBER 2005 12) Total holding following this notification 73,594,394 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 9.808% 14) Any additional information 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries LIZ EDDINGTON 0207 321 4554 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Date of Notification 21 NOVEMBER 2005 LETTER TO: PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY 18 November 2005 GBP1 DEFERRED SHARES ("SHARES") We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have aninterest in 71,024,354 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on adiscretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements. Included in this figure are:- (i) 23,512,565 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited (Schroder Nominees), (ii) 24,429,163 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by an affiliated company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited, (iii) 23,082,626 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of Schroder Nominees. The registration details are shown on the enclosed Schedule A. A subsidiary, Schroder Investment Management North America Ltd (SIMNA Ltd), is managing (a) portfolio(s) on a similar basis holding a further 1,975,000 shares. These shares are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited. An affiliated company, Schroder & Co Limited (S&Co Ltd), is managing on adiscretionary basis (a) portfolio(s) holding a further 595,040 shares. Theseshares are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited. We believe that we, our subsidiary and affiliated company are thereforeinterested in an overall aggregate of 73,594,394 shares, representing some9.808% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 750,380,021 This notification is made to you: - (a) in respect of our interest as investment managers, (b) on behalf of SIMNA Ltd, S&Co and SUTL in relation to the interests they are treated as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and (c) on behalf of Schroders plc, our holding company, which is treated as having an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its ownership of SIMNA Ltd, S&Co, SUTL and ourselves. From: Albion Onojobi (Compliance, Schroders) GBP1 DEFERRED SHARES ("SHARES") SCHEDULE A REGISTRATION AMOUNT Banque Internationale a Luxembourg 236,513 Banque Nationale de Paris 42,700 BNY (OSC) Nominees Limited a/c: 219021 564,971 Chase Manhattan Bank 2,864,866 Chase Nominees Limited 2,239,300 Dexia Bil Dublin Branch George's Qua 76,997 HSBC Global Custody 199,700 HSBC Global Custody Nom.(UK) Ltd a/c: 809955 280,000 HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK)Ltd 744,107 HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd a/c: 771401 96,300 Investors Tst & Custodial Services 178,200 Mellon Nominees (UK) Ltd 135,100 Mellon Trust 590,126 Morgan Nominees Ltd 200,984 MSS Nominees Limited a/c: 756593 309,190 MSS Nominees Limited Mariner House P 1,962,000 Nortrust Nominees Limited 6,817,468 Nortrust Nominees Limited a/c: SRC13 86,200 Nutraco Nominees Ltd 105,000 Nutraco Nominees Ltd a/c: GWPPMPS 238,421 Nutraco Nominees Ltd 811,706 RBSTB Nominees Ltd 1,342,800 State Street Bank and Trust Co. 1,194,000 State Street Nominees Ltd 1,765,977 23,082,626 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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