Last checked at 10 Mar 2010 11:11
| TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares |
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1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: |
N Brown Group PLC | ||
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2. Reason for notification (yes/no) | |||
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An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | Yes | ||
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An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached | No | ||
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An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments | No | ||
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An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | No | ||
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Other (please specify):___________________________ | No | ||
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3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation: | Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group | ||
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4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3): | See additional information under 13. | ||
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5. Date of transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: | 08 March 2010 | ||
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6. Date on which issuer notified: | 09 March 2010 | ||
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7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: | Above the threshold of 5% | ||
| 8: Notified Details | | ||||||||||
| A: Voting rights attached to shares | | ||||||||||
| Class/type of shares If possible use ISIN code | Situation previous to the triggering transaction | Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | | ||||||||
| Number of shares | Number of voting rights | Number of shares | Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights | | ||||||
| Direct | Direct | Indirect | Direct | Indirect | | ||||||
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| GB00B1P6ZR11 | N/A | N/A | 140,000 | 140,000 | 13,828,831 | 0.050% | 4.967% | ||||
| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
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| Type of financial instrument | Expiration date | Exercise/ conversion period | No. of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted. | Percentage of voting rights |
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| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
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| Type of financial instrument | Exercise Price | Expiration date | Exercise / conversion period | No. of voting rights instrument refers to | Percentage of voting rights | |
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| Total (A+B+C)
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| Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights |
| 13,968,831 | 5.017% |
| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: |
| Ameriprise Financial, Inc., which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. andThreadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, which itself controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd, Threadneedle International Ltd and Threadneedle Pensions Ltd. |
| Proxy Voting:
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| 10. Name of proxy holder:
| N/A |
| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
| N/A |
| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
| N/A |
| 13. Additional information:
| Registered Owner
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| 14 Contact name:
| Company Secretary, Threadneedle group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15. Contact telephone name:
| +44 (0)20 7464 5000 |
| Annex: Notification of major interests in shares |
| A: Identity of the persons or legal entity subject to the notification obligation | |
| Full name (including legal form of legal entities)
| Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (a company incorporated in the State of Delaware, USA) and its group |
| Contact address (registered office for legal entities)
| c/o Company Secretary, Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, 60 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8JQ, UK |
| Phone number & email
| +44 (0)20 7464 5000 |
| Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons)
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| B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable | |
| Full name
| Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd |
| Contact address
| The Company Secretary, 60 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8JQ, UK |
| Phone number & email
| +44 (0)20 7464 5000 |
| Other useful information
(e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation) | UK intermediate holding company of the ultimate parent company |
| C: Additional information |
| Philip Harland , Company Secretary, N Brown Group plc 0161 238 2298 |