Notification of interest
December 03 2009 - 7:53AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMHMF TIDMLGEN
RNS Number : 5461D
Handmade PLC
03 December 2009
Financial Services Authority
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES |
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer | Handmade Plc |
| of existing shares to which voting rights are | |
| attached: | |
| | |
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| 2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): |
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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | Yes |
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| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may | |
| result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting | |
| rights are attached. | |
| | |
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| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect | |
| to qualifying financial instruments | |
| | |
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| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | Yes |
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| Other (please | | |
| specify): | | |
| | | |
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| 3. Full name of person(s) subject to | Legal & General Group Plc (Group) |
| the | Legal & General Investment Management |
| notification obligation: | Limited (LGIM) |
| | Legal & General Group Plc (L&G) |
| | Legal & General (Unit Trust Managers) |
| | Limited (As operator of Collective |
| | Investment Schemes) (UTM) |
| | |
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) | Legal & General Assurance Society Limited |
| (if different from 3.): | (LGAS & LGPL) |
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| 5. Date of the transaction and date | 18 November 2009 |
| on | |
| which the threshold is crossed or | |
| reached: | |
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified: | 19 November 2009 |
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed | Above 15% (Group) |
| or | Above 15% (LGIM) |
| reached: | Above 3% (L&G) |
| | Above 5% (UTM) |
| | |
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+----------------+----------+---------+--------+---------+--+--+---------+--+----------------+--+------------+--------+-----------------------+--+--+--------+
| 8. Notified details: |
| |
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares |
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| Class/type of | Situation previous | Resulting situation after the triggering |
| shares | to the triggering | transaction |
| if possible | transaction | |
| using | | |
| the ISIN CODE | | |
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| | Number | Number | Number | Number | % of voting rights |
| | of | of | of | of | |
| | Shares | Voting | shares | voting | |
| | | Rights | | rights | |
+ + + + +--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | Direct | Indirect | Direct | Indirect |
+----------------+-----------------------------+---------------+------------+-------------------+------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+
| ORD | Below 3% |35,000,000 | 11,000,000 |24,000,000 | 4.72 | 10.30 |
| GBP 0.05 | (L&G) | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
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| | Below 5% | | | | | |
| | (LGIM) | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+ +---------------------------------------------+ + + + + +
| | Below 5% | | | | | |
| | (UTM) | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
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| |
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| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments |
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
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| Type of financial | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of voting | % of voting |
| instrument | date | Conversion | rights that may | rights |
| | | Period | be | |
| | | | acquired if the | |
| | | | instrument is | |
| | | | exercised/ | |
| | | | converted. | |
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| | | | | |
+-------------------------------------+------------------+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| |
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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 | Exercise price | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of voting | % of voting |
| instrument | | date | Conversion | rights | rights |
| | | | period | instrument | |
| | | | | refers to | |
| | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Nominal | Delta |
+ + + + + +-----------------------------+--------+
| | | | | | | |
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| |
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| Total (A+B+C) |
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| Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights |
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| 35,000,000 | 15.02 |
| (LGIM) | |
| | |
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| 20,000,000 | 8.58 |
| (UTM) | |
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| 11,000,000 | 4.72 |
| (L&G) | |
| | |
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the |
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: |
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| Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group) (35,000,000 - |
| 15.02% = Total Position) |
| Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (LGIMH) |
| (Direct and Indirect) (35,000,000 - 15.02% = Total Position) |
| Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) (LGIM) |
| (35,000,000 - 15.02% = Total Position) |
| Legal & General (Unit Trust Managers) Limited (20,000,000 - 8.58% = |
| UTM) |
| Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) (11,000,000 - 4.72 % = LGAS, LGPL & |
| PMC) |
| Legal Legal & General Insurance Holdings Limited (Direct) (LGIH) (10,200,000 |
| & - 4.37 % = LGAS & LGPL) |
| General |
| Investment |
| Management |
| (Holdings) |
| Limited |
| (Direct) |
| (LGIMHD) |
| Legal Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (LGAS & LGPL) (10,200,000 - |
| & 4.37 % = LGAS & LGPL) |
| General |
| Assurance |
| (Pensions |
| Management) |
| Limited |
| (PMC) |
| Legal & General Pensions Limited (Direct) (LGPL) |
| |
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| Proxy Voting: |
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder: | N/A |
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will | N/A |
| cease | |
| to hold: | |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to | N/A |
| hold | |
| voting rights: | |
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| |
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| 13. Additional information: |Notification using the total voting |
| | rights figure of 232,986,845 |
| | |
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| 14. Contact name: | Helen Lewis (LGIM) |
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| 15. Contact telephone number: | 020 3124 3851 |
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