Holdings in Company

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 4 January 2012

Holdings in Company

Melrose Resources plc (LSE: MRS) ("Melrose" or "the Company") has been notified today that following the disaggregation exemption notified to the FSA under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules on 17th October 2011, AXA SA and its subsidiary notifying group entities, acting independently from their parent and from each other, no longer have any reportable holdings in Melrose on a group aggregated basis. However, AXA Investment Managers SA has now crossed upward the 5% threshold and has a holding of 6,459,383 ordinary shares in the Company, representing a holding of 5.63%, on a group disaggregated basis as an independent subsidiary of AXA SA.

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