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Victrex PLC31 January 2005 SCHEDULE 10 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1) NAME OF COMPANY VICTREX PLC 2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST SCHRODERS PLC 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 BELOW 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 ORD 1P SHARES 10) Date of transaction - 11) Date company informed 27.01.05 12) Total holding following this notification 8,613,582 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 10.678% 14) Any additional information 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries JANET M MYERS 01253 897708 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Date of Notification ..31 JANUARY 2005........ VICTREX PLC1p ORDINARY SHARES ("SHARES") Dated 27 January 2005 We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have aninterest in 7,449,155 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on adiscretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements. Included in this figure are:- (i.) 4,009,379 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by anaffiliated company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and registered or tobe registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited, (ii.) 3,439,776 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of Schroder Nominees. The Registration details are shown on Schedule A. An affiliated company, Schroder Investment Management North America Limited(SIMNA Ltd), is managing (a) portfolio(s) on a similar basis holding a further1,164,427 shares which are registered or to be registered in the name of ChaseNominees Limited. We believe that we and our subsidiary and affiliated companies are thereforeinterested in an overall aggregate of 8,613,582 shares, representing some10.669% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 80,507,108 shares. 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 aretreated as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and (c) on behalf of Schroders plc., our holding company, which is treated as havingan interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its ownershipof SIMNA Ltd, SUTL and ourselves. VICTREX PLC SCHEDULE A 1p ORDINARY SHARES REGISTRATION AMOUNTBritish Coal Staff Superannuation a/c: P 1,000,000Chase Nominees Limited 737,482Mineworkers' Pension Scheme 1,242,759Nortrust Nominees Limited 450,000Unibank Torvegade 9,535 TOTAL 3,439,776 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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