Regulatory announcements
Holding(s) in Company
25 August 2015
| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi |
| 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:ii |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | |
| 2 Reason for the notification(please tick the appropriate box or boxes): | ||
| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | x | |
| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached | ||
| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments | ||
| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | ||
| Other: | ||
| 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:iii |
Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited (and/or acting for its affiliates) as discretionary investment manager on behalf of multiple portfolios | ||||
| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):iv |
Aberdeen UK Smaller Companies Equity Fund | ||||
| 5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached):v |
10 August 2015 | ||||
| 6. Date on which issuer notified: | 12 August 2015 | ||||
| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:vi, vii | 11% | ||||
| 8. Notified details: | |||||||||||||
| A: Voting rights attached to sharesvii, ix | |||||||||||||
| Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE |
Situation previous to the triggering transaction |
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | |||||||||||
| Number of Shares |
Number of Voting Rights |
Number of shares |
Number of voting rights |
% of voting rightsx | |||||||||
| Indirectxii | Direct | Indirect | |||||||||||
| GB0033147751 | 8,350,299 | 8,350,299 | 7,750,299 | 7,750,299 | 10.33% | ||||||||
| B:Qualifying Financial Instruments | ||||
| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | ||||
| Type of financial instrument | Expiration date xiii | Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv |
Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted. |
% of voting rights |
| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi | ||||||
| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
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| Type of financial instrument |
Exercise price |
Expiration date xvii |
Exercise/ Conversion period xviii |
Number of voting rights instrument refers to |
% of voting rights xix, xx | |
| Nominal | Delta | |||||
| Total (A+B+C) | |
| Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights |
| 7,750,299 | 10.33% |
| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: |
| Proxy Voting: |
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder: |
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: |
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| 13. Additional information: |
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| 14. Contact name: |
Michael Daykin Group Company Secretary Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| 15. Contact telephonenumber: |
0207 631 5627 |
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