SAR - Hartstone Group Plc
October 01 2003 - 7:25AM
UK Regulatory
RNS Number:4030Q
J O Hambro Capital Management Ld
01 October 2003
FORM SAR 5
Lodge with a RIS or Newstrack if appropriate and the Takeover Panel.
A copy must also be sent to the company the shares of which are being sold.
Date of disclosure
1 October 2003
DISCLOSURE UNDER NOTE 3 OF RULE 5 OF THE RULES GOVERNING SUBSTANTIAL
ACQUISITIONS OF SHARES ("SARs")
Date of sale
26 September 2003 - 2,500,000 shares sold
30 September 2003 - 1,750,000 shares sold
Sale of (name of company)
Hartstone Group Plc
1. Class of voting shares (eg ordinary shares)
Ordinary shares
Number of shares/rights over shares sold
4,250,000 in total Shares Rights
If rights over shares sold, as opposed to the shares themselves, specify nature
of rights
N/a
2. Resultant total holding of voting shares (and % of total voting shares in
issue)
36,060,000 shares 20.78%
Resultant total holding of rights over shares (and % of total voting shares in
issue)
N/a %
Total percentage
20.78%
3. Party making disclosure
J O Hambro Capital Management Limited
4. (a) Name of person selling shares or rights over shares
As above
and, if different, beneficial owner
(b) Names of any other persons acting by agreement or understanding
North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC, Oryx International Growth Fund Limited
Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (3) above
(Also print name of signatory)
Bonita Dryden
Telephone and extension number
020 7747 5681
For full details of the SARs disclosure requirements, see Rules 3 and 5 of the
SARs. If in doubt, contact the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, Monitoring
Section, Tel. No: 020 7638 0129. E-mail: monitoring@disclosure.org.uk
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