29th Dec 2006 09:32
Dairy Farm International Hldgs Ld29 December 2006 DAIRY FARM INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED (the "Company") Voting Rights and Capital In conformity with the Transparency Directive's transitional provision 6 wewould like to notify the market of the following:- At the close of business on 29th December 2006 the Company's issued sharecapital consists of 1,346,877,828 ordinary shares with voting rights of one voteper share. The above number of issued shares may be used by shareholders as the denominatorfor the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notifytheir interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under theFinancial Services Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules. In addition to the requirements of the Financial Services Authority's Disclosureand Transparency Rules, there are existing disclosure obligations set out inPart XVII of the Bermuda Takeover Code which will continue to apply to interestsin the Company's shares. The obligation to disclose arises if and when a personis interested in 3% (or, in certain circumstances, 10%) or more of the Company'sshares and if and when such interest moves up or down through a whole percentagepoint. Such notification must be made to the Company within two business days.The higher limit of 10% applies, in broad terms, to a person authorized tomanage investments under an investment management agreement or where such personis the operator of an authorized collective investment scheme. Neil M McNamara, Jardine Matheson Limitedfor and on behalf of Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited 29th December 2006 www.dairyfarmgroup.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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