21st Mar 2007 13:05
Rank Group PLC21 March 2007 The Rank Group Plc - Notification of Major Interest in Shares On 21 March 2007, the Company received a notification fromFidelity International Limited ("FIL"), under the obligations imposed by theFSA's Disclosure & Transparency Rules (the "DTR Rules") that, as at 19 March2007, it had a notifiable indirect interest in the voting rights attached to34,488,035 Ordinary 10p shares of The Rank Group Plc ("Rank") representing 6.36%of the total voting rights in Rank. The nominee or registered name in which the shares are held is set out in theSchedule below. SCHEDULE Nominee/Registered Name: Management Company: (see Note) JP Morgan, Bournemouth FPM 795,100 State Str Bk and Tr Co Lndn FPM 401,400 Northern Trust London FPM 1,462,500 HSBC Bank PLC FPM 945,700 Bank of New York Brussels FPM 91,400 JP Morgan, Bournemouth FISL 13,726,227 JP Morgan, Bournemouth FIL 15,644,200 JP Morgan, Bournemouth FII 1,421,508 TOTAL INTEREST 34,488,035 Note FPM - Fidelity Pension Management FISL - Fidelity Investment Services Limited FIL - Fidelity International Limited FII - Fidelity Investments International NOTE Prior to the implementation of the EU Transparency Directive, the interests ofFMR Corp ("FMR") and Fidelity International Limited ("FIL") were aggregated forthe purposes of shareholder reporting. In accordance with the new DTR Rules, FIL is now reporting the indirect holdingsof FMR and FIL separately. FMR currently has no holdings in Rank. 21 March 2007 website: www.rank.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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