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Kesa Electricals plc18 December 2006 KESA ELECTRICALS PLC NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES All relevant paragraphs should be completed in block capital letters. 1. Name of company Kesa Electricals plc 2. Name of shareholder having a major interest UBS AG, acting through its business group and legal entities detailed below. 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 As 2 above. 4. Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them Registered Holder Number of Ordinary SharesMATERIALUBS Global Asset ManagementLife Limited 3,179,260UBS AG London Branch 837,865NON-MATERIALUBS Global Asset Management - 46,031DSI International ManagementInc.UBS AG Global Asset Management 3,791,293UBS Fund Management (Switzerland) AG 1,343,853UBS Fund Services (Luxembourg)SA 10,173,139UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. 7,006,735UBS Global Asset Management (Canada) Co. 1,418,650UBS Global Asset Management (France) SA 21,200UBS Global Asset Management (Deutschland) GmbH 1,670,009UBS Global Asset Management (Hong Kong) Ltd 121,276UBS Global Asset Management (Japan) Ltd 6,674,068UBS Global Asset Management (Singapore) Ltd 573,794UBS Global Asset Management Trust Company 1,791,558UBS Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd 17,771,303UBS O'Connor LLC 624,660UBS Wealth Management and Business Banking 736,220UBS Wealth Management (UK) Ltd 16,510TOTAL UBS AG 57,797,424 5. Number of shares/amount of stock acquired Not notified. 6. Percentage of issued class Not notified. 7. Number of shares/amount of stock disposed Not notified. 8. Percentage of issued class Not notified. 9. Class of security Ordinary shares of 25 pence each ("ordinary shares") 10. Date of transaction 5 December 2006 11. Date company informed 11 December 2006 12. Total holding following this notification 57,797,424 ordinary shares 13. Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 10.91% 14. Any additional information None 15. Name of contact and telephone number for queries Simon Enoch 020 7269 1400 16. Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Simon Enoch (Company Secretary) Date of notification: 18th December 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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