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AEA Technology PLC2 February 2005 SCHEDULE 10 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1) NAME OF COMPANY AEA TECHNOLOGY PLC 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 SEE LETTER BELOW 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. SEE LETTER BELOW 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. 894,276 6) Percentage of issued Class 1.32% 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed N/A 8) Percentage of issued Class N/A 9) Class of security ORDINARY £0.1222P 10) Date of transaction NOT KNOWN 11) Date company informed 2 FEBRUARY 2005 12) Total holding following this notification 17,119,468 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 25.33% 14) Any additional information SEE BELOW 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries KEITH RUSSELL 0870 190 8113 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification G.R. EVANS pp KEITH RUSSELL Date of Notification 2 FEBRUARY 2005 Letter to AEA Technology Plc dated 1 February 2005 10P ORDINARY SHARES ("SHARES") We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an interest in 14,794,468 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements. Included in this figure are:- (i) 579,821 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited (Schroder Nominees), (ii) 6,644,684 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)7,569,963 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of Schroder Nominees Limited. The registration details are shown on schedule A below. An subsidiary, Schroder Investment Management North America Inc (SIMNA Inc), is managing a portfolio holding a further 2,325,000 shares. These shares are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited. We believe that we, our subsidiary and affiliated company are therefore interested in an overall aggregate of 17,119,468 shares, representing some 25.343% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 67,549,959. This notification is made to you:- (a) in respect of our interest as investment managers, (b) on behalf of SIMNA Ltd 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, SUTL and ourselves. SCHEDULE A AEA TECHNOLOGY PLC 10P ORDINARY SHARES REGISTRATION AMOUNT Banque Internationale a Luxembourg S 51,902British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c: P 2,711,290 Chase Nominees Limited 1,331,758 Mineworkers' Pension Scheme a/c: R 2,737,123 Morgan Nominees Ltd 90,818 Nortrust Nominees Ltd 540,272 Nutraco Nominees Ltd a/c: GWPPMPS 102,800 Shares held by overseas office 4,000 ---------- 7,569,963 ---------- Letter from Schroder Investment Management Limited This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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