INC.L Regulatory News (INC)

2 Aug 2006 15:42

Avanti Screenmedia Group PLC02 August 2006 NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK COMPANIES ACT 1. Company in which shares are held: AVANTI SCREENMEDIA GROUP PLC 2. Notifiable Interest: ORDINARY SHARES A FMR Corp 82 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109 Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings.) B Fidelity International Limited (FIL) P.O. BOX HM 670 Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST), Fidelity Investment Advisory (Korea) Limited (FIA(K)L), Fidelity Pension Management (FPM) and Fidelity Investments International (FII) investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients. 3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of Mr Edward C Johnson 3d 82 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109 A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited. 4. The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized unit trust schemes in the U.K. notwithstanding the exemption from reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1) (h) of the Companies Act 1985. 5. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr Edward C Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these notifications on a joint basis. 6. The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4) (b) of the Act, namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively. SCHEDULE A SECURITY: AVANTI SCREENMEDIA GROUP PLC Amendment No 2 CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE: 8.29% TOTAL SHARES HELD: 1,852,700 SHARES IN ISSUE: 22,343,503 CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE LAST FILING: (175,400) ORDINARY SHARES SHARES HELD MANAGEMENT NOMINEE/REGISTERED COMPANY NAME 1,561,600 FMRCO MELLON BANK N.A. 291,100 FIL BROWN BROS HARRIMN LTD LUX This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange