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Smiths Group PLC07 January 2005 07 January 2005 Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares 1. Name of company: Smiths Group plc 2. Name of shareholder having a major interest: The Capital Group Companies,Inc. 3. Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holdingof the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interestor in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person'sspouse or children under the age of 18: Notification by The Capital Group Companies, Inc. on behalf of its affiliates,including Capital International S.A., Capital International Limited, CapitalInternational, Inc. and Capital Guardian Trust Company in respect of fundsmanaged on behalf of investment clients. 4. Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number ofshares held by each of them: Shareholder Shares State Street Nominees Limited 3,096,936Bank of New York Nominees Limited 918,556Chase Nominees Limited 7,195,738BT Globenet Nominees Limited 204,914Midland Bank plc 1,551,118Bankers Trust 558,258Barclays Bank 114,266Citibank London 15,900Nortrust Nominees Limited 1,802,660Royal Bank of Scotland 48,112Citibank NA, Toronto 188,431ROY Nominees Limited 49,700Morgan Guaranty 3,300Citibank 13,304Deutsche Bank AG 9,200Mellon Bank NA 2,800Lloyds Bank 1,832State Street Bank & Trust Co. 134,333MSS Nominees Limited 12,800HSBC Bank plc 50,990Mellon Nominees (UK) Limited 295,400KAS UK 1,300RBSTB Nominees Limited 7,300Bank One London 2,600Brown Bros. 35,200Northern Trust 53,980Cede & Co 5,400HSBC, Kuala Lumpur 1,800JP Morgan Chase Bank 455,528Sumitomo Trust & Banking 8,800 5. Number of shares/amount of stock acquired: Not disclosed 6. Percentage of issued class: N/A 7. Number of shares/amount of stock disposed: Not disclosed 8. Percentage of issued class: N/A 9. Class of security: Ordinary shares of 25p 10. Date of transaction: Not disclosed 11. Date company informed: 07 January 2005 (re interests as at 05 January 2005) 12. Total holding following this notification: 16,840,456 shares 13. Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification: 2.996% 14. Contact name for queries: Neil Burdett 15. Contact telephone number: 020 8457 8229 16. Name of company official responsible for making notification: Neil Burdett 17. Date of notification: 07 January 2005 Additional Information Capital Guardian Trust Company ("CGTC") is an affiliate of Capital GroupCompanies, Inc. ("CGCI"). The interests of CGTC in the share capital of theCompany amount to 12.87m shares (2.3% of the issued share capital) and areincluded in the overall interests notified by CGCI and detailed above. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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