Bank of Ireland Group PLC Notification of Major Holdings (8997K)
July 12 2017 - 11:13AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMBIRG
RNS Number : 8997K
Bank of Ireland Group PLC
12 July 2017
Standard Form TR-1
Standard form for notification of major holdings
NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS (to be sent to the relevant issuer and
to the Central Bank of Ireland)
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1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares
to which voting rights are attached:
Bank of Ireland Group plc
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2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
[X] An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
[ ] An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments
[ ] An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
[ ] Other (please specify):
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3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation:
Name: City and country of registered office (if
The Capital Group Companies, applicable):
Inc. ("CGC") Los Angeles, California 90071 U.S.A.
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4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
See Box 10
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5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached:
10 July 2017
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6. Date on which issuer notified:
11 July 2017
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7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: Above 3% - Aggregate
of voting rights from shares
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8. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:
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% of voting % of voting rights Total of both Total number
rights attached through financial in % (9.A + of voting rights
to shares (total instruments 9.B) of issuer
of 9.A) (total of 9.B.1
+ 9.B.2)
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Resulting situation
on the date
on which threshold
was crossed
or reached 7.0511% 0.0000% 7.0511% 1,078,822,872
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Position of N/A N/A N/A
previous notification
(if applicable)
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9. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the
threshold was crossed or reached:
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A: Voting rights attached to shares
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Class/type Number of voting rights % of voting rights
of
shares
ISIN code (if
possible)
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Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
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Ordinary Shares
(ISIN: IE00BD1RP616) 76,068,446 7.0511%
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SUBTOTAL A 76,068,446 7.0511%
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B 1: Financial Instruments according to Regulation 17(1)(a) of the Regulations
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Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting
instrument date Conversion Period rights that may rights
be acquired if
the instrument
is
exercised/converted.
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Not applicable
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SUBTOTAL B.1
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B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to
Regulation 17(1)(b) of the Regulations
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Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ Physical or Number of % of voting
instrument date Conversion cash settlement voting rights
Period rights
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Not applicable
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SUBTOTAL B.2
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10. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification
obligation
[ ] Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by
any natural person or legal entity and does not control any other undertaking(s)
holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) issuer.
[ X ] Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting
rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate
controlling natural person or legal entity:
Name % of voting rights % of voting rights Total of both if
if it equals or through financial it equals or is
is higher than the instruments if it higher than the
notifiable threshold equals or is higher notifiable threshold
than the notifiable
threshold
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The Capital Group
Companies, Inc.
Holdings by CG Management
companies are set
out below: 7.0511% 0.0000% 7.0511%
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Capital Guardian
Trust Company(2)
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Capital Research
and Management Company("CRMC")(1) 6.6359% 0.0000% 6.6359%
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EuroPacific Growth
Fund(3) (Direct
shareholding that
does not exercise
its own voting shares.
Voting shares are
exercised by CRMC.)
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(1.) Wholly owned subsidiary of The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
(2.) Wholly owned indirect subsidiary of CRMC.
(3.) Mutual fund managed by CRMC.
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11. In case of proxy voting: [name of the proxy holder] will cease to
hold [% and number] voting rights as of [date]
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12. Additional information:
CGC is the parent company of CRMC. CRMC is a U.S.-based investment management
company that manages the American Funds family of mutual funds. CRMC
manages equity assets for various investment companies through three
divisions, Capital Research Global Investors, Capital International Investors
and Capital World Investors. CRMC in turn is the parent company of Capital
Group International, Inc. ("CGII"), which in turn is the parent company
of five investment management companies ("CGII management companies"):
Capital Guardian Trust Company, Capital International, Inc., Capital
International Limited, Capital International Sàrl and Capital International
K.K. The CGII management companies primarily serve as investment managers
to institutional clients.
Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of your company for
its own account. Rather, the shares reported on this Notification are
owned by accounts under the discretionary investment management of one
or more of the investment management companies described above.
EuroPacific Growth Fund ("EUPAC") is a mutual fund registered in the
United States under the Investment Company Act of 1940. EUPAC is the
legal owner of 46,851,951 shares (4.3429% of outstanding shares). EUPAC
has granted proxy voting authority to CRMC, its investment adviser.
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Done at Dublin on 12 July 2017
Contact: Helen Nolan, Group Secretary
Telephone: +353 (0) 76 623 4710
This information is provided by RNS
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