Holding(s) in Company

14 Feb 2005 11:20

Sanctuary Group PLC14 February 2005 Notification of Major interests in shares The Sanctuary Group plc ("the Company") 14 February 2005 The Company was notified on 14 February 2005 that Morgan Stanley SecuritiesLimited ("MSSL") disposed of an interest in the ordinary shares of the Companyon 9 February 2005 with the result that MSSL now have a beneficial interest inthe Company of 26,927,106shares, being approximately 7.9% of the issued sharecapital of the Company. MSSL have transferred from time to time 12,599,000 shares to a third party onterms which gave MSSL the right to require the return of an equivalent number ofshares. Accordingly, MSSL's interest in 12,599,000 shares is pursuant to Section208(5) of the Companies Act 1985. MSSL is a member of the Morgan Stanley Group of companies. Those group companieswhich are direct or indirect holding companies of MSSL are, under the terms ofsection 203 of the Companies Act 1985, each interested by attribution in anyshares in which MSSL is interested. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange