Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1: Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:

Thomas Cook Group PLC

2: Reason for notification (yes/no)

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

X

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 the notification

obligation:

Marathon Asset Management LLP

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

See attached breakdown

5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold

is crossed or reached):

16 December 2013

6. Date on which issuer notified:

31 January 2014

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

5%

8: Notified Details

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of share If possible use ISIN code

GB00B1VYCH82

Situation previous to the triggering transaction

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

93,584,690

73,053,863

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

Percentage ofvoting rights

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

92,657,863

72,555,285

4.97%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Expiration date

Exercise/ conversion period/date

No. of voting rights that may be acquired(if the instrument exercised/converted)

Percentage of voting rights

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

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exerciseprice

Expirationdate

Exercise/Conversionperiod

Number of votingrights instrumentrefers to

% of voting rights

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

72,555,285

4.97%

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:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

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

13. Additional information:

Received by Thomas Cook Group plc on 31 January 2014

14. Contact name:

15. Contact telephone number:

Custodian

Nominal

BNP Paribas Securities Services UK

701,358

Citibank

470,377

Danske Bank

1,387,038

JP Morgan Chase

1,136,136

Mellon Bank

8,095,977

Northern Trust

39,540,063

RBC Dexia

257,243

State Street Bank & Trust Company, Boston

18,903,954

MEHF

2,063,139

Total

72,555,285