Holding(s) in Company

Reason for notification:

Acquisition or disposal of voting rights

Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:

AXA SA, 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies

Date of the transaction:

22 March 2009

Date on which issuer notified: 

23 March 2009

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

5%

Voting rights attached to shares:

Class/type of shares - GB0005758098

Situation previous to the triggering transaction:

Number of shares - 33,473,463

Number of voting rights - 33,473,463

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction:

Number of shares, direct - 7,940,452

Number of voting rights, direct - 7,940,452

Number of voting rights, indirect - 25,332,173

Percentage of voting rights, direct - 1.19%

Percentage of voting rights, indirect - 3.81%

Total voting rights:

Number of voting rights - 33,272,625

Percentage of voting rights - 4.99%

Contact name

Kyere Tabiri

Contact telephone number

020 7003 1510

Name of the company/fund

Number of shares

Direct or indirect

% of issued share capital

AXA

1,394,524

Direct

0.20951

AXA Colonia Konzern

7,268

Direct

0.00109

AXA Colonia Konzern

11,035

Indirect

0.00166

AXA Framlington 

16,402,217

Indirect

2.46426

AXA Framlington Blue Chip

550,000

Indirect

0.082631788

AXA France

19,748

Indirect

0.00

AXA IM UK

6,084,350

Direct

0.914110401

AXA IM UK

656,000

Indirect

0.098557187

AXA Rosenberg

281,941

Direct

0.042358707

AXA Rosenberg

7,693,173

Indirect 

1.155819349

AXA Winterthur

172,369

Direct

0.025896652

Total direct

7,940,452

1.19297

Total indirect

25,332,173

3.80590

TOTAL

33,272,625

5.03621