Holding(s) in Company
October 17 2003 - 7:17AM
UK Regulatory
RNS Number:0225R
Johnston Press PLC
17 October 2003
Johnston Press plc ("the Company")
NOTIFICATION OF SHAREHOLDING
The Company received notification on 16 October 2003 that:
a) FMR Corp., the parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research
Company ("FMRCO"), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity
Management Trust Company ("FMTC"), a US state chartered bank which acts as a
trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust accounts.
b) Fidelity International Limited ("FIL"), the parent holding company for
various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including Fidelity Investment Services
Ltd ("FISL"), and Fidelity Pension Management ("FPM"), investment managers for
various non-US investment companies and institutional clients,
have a notifiable interest in the Ordinary Shares of the Company.
The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of Mr Edward C.
Johnson 3rd, a principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International
Limited.
The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorised unit
trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from reporting pursuant
to Section 209(1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.
These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate notifications
of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the purposes of clarity.
Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that FMR Corp. and its direct and
indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity International Limited and its direct and
indirect subsidiaries, or Mr Edward C. Johnson 3rd act as a group or in concert
in respect of the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these
notifications on a joint basis.
The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4)(b) of the Act, namely where
a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to exercise a right
conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the exercise of such
rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively.
The registered holders are as follows:-
Registered Holder Management Company Shares held
HSBC FMRCO 8,000,030
Chase Nominees Ltd FMRCO 1,825,800
State Street Nominees Ltd FMRCO 215,570
State Street Nominees Ltd FMTC 25,700
Brown Brothers Harriman FMTC 18,180
State Street Bank & Trust FMTC 14,600
Chase Nominees Ltd FISL 1,755,370
Chase Manhattan Bank London FISL 42,053
RBS Trust Bank FPM 41,222
Nortrust Nominees Ltd FPM 68,662
BT Globenet Nominees Ltd FPM 13,780
Citibank FPM 28,214
Bank of New York London FPM 32,322
Bankers Trust FPM 903,500
HSBC Client Hlds Nom (UK) FPM 454,900
Bankers Trust FIL 26,800
Citibank FIL 20,686
RBS Trust Bank FIL 233,678
Chase Nominees Ltd FIL 22,700
Bank of New York Europe FIL 97,961
HSBC FIL 2,688
Northern Trust FIL 156,340
Bank of New York London FIL 206,600
JP Morgan FIL 76,300
Total 14,283,656
This represents 5.04% of the total amount of shares in issue.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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