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FirstgroupAnnouncement

18/12/2015 17:50

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi                                                     
                                                                                                    
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer                                    FIRSTGROUP PLC
of existing shares to which voting rights are                                                       
attached: ii                                                                                        
                                                                                                    
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):                           
                                                                                                    
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                                                  Yes    
                                                                                                    
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result               No    
in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached                     
                                                                                                    
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to                     No    
qualifying financial instruments                                                                    
                                                                                                    
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                                              No    
                                                                                                    
Other (please                                                                                 No    
specify):                                                                                           
                                                                                                    
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the                    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
notification obligation: iii                                                                        
                                                                                                    
4. Full name of shareholder(s)                              HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited
 (if different from 3.):iv                                                     Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                                                                       State Street Nominees Limited
                                                                                Vidacos Nominees Ltd
                                                                                                    
5. Date of the transaction and date on                                              17 December 2015
which the threshold is crossed or                                                                   
reached: v                                                                                          
                                                                                                    
6. Date on which issuer notified:                                                   18 December 2015
                                                                                                    
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or                                     Above the threshold of 5%
reached: vi, vii                                                                                    
                                                                                                    


 

8. Notified details:                                                                                 
                                                                                                     
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix                                                         
                                                                                                     
Class/type of    Situation previous        Resulting situation after the triggering transaction      
shares           to the triggering                                                                   
                 transaction                                                                         
if possible                                                                                          
using            Number       Number       Number      Number of voting      % of  voting rights x   
the ISIN CODE    of           of           of shares   rights                                        
                 Shares       Voting                                                                 
                              Rights       Direct      Direct xi  Indirect   Direct       Indirect   
                                                                  xii                                
                                                                                                     
GB0003452173     N/A          N/A          540,295     540,295    63,080,949 0.045%       5.236%     
                                                                                                     
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                                  
                                                                                                     
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                 
                                                                                                     
Type of financial       Expiration Exercise/               Number of voting        % of voting       
instrument              date xiii  Conversion Period xiv   rights that may be      rights            
                                                           acquired if the                           
                                                           instrument is                             
                                                           exercised/ converted.                     
                                                                                                     
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial                        
Instruments xv, xvi                                                                                  
                                                                                                     
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                 
                                                                                                     
Type of financial  Exercise   Expiration Exercise/     Number of voting rights  % of voting rights   
instrument         price      date xvii  Conversion    instrument refers to     xix, xx              
                                         period xviii                                                
                                                                                                     
                                                                                Nominal      Delta   
                                                                                                     
Total (A+B+C)                                                                                        
                                                                                                     
Number of voting rights                          Percentage of voting rights                         
                                                                                                     
63,621,244                                       5.281%                                              
                                                                                                     


 

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the              
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi                              
                                                                                            
                                                                                            
Threadneedle Asset Management Limited (5.281%)                                              
                                                                                            
Threadneedle Asset Management Limited is wholly owned by TC Financing Limited,              
which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Limited,             
which is itself wholly owned by TAM UK Holdings Limited, which is itself wholly             
owned by Threadneedle Holdings Limited, which is itself wholly owned by                     
Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings SARL, which is itself wholly owned by                
Ameriprise International Holdings GmbH, which is itself wholly owned by                     
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.                                                                  
                                                                                            
Proxy Voting:                                                                               
                                                                                            
10. Name of the proxy holder:                                                            N/A
                                                                                            
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease                                      N/A
to hold:                                                                                    
                                                                                            
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold                                        N/A
voting rights:                                                                              
                                                                                            
                                                 The Shares referred to in section 9 of this
13. Additional information:                    form are held in portfolios and funds managed
                                                on a discretionary basis by the entities set
                                              out in section 9.  Please note that the Shares
                                                 are held through certain nominee companies.
                                                                                            
                                                                                            
14. Contact name:                                                               Robert Welch
                                                                                            
15. Contact telephone number:                                                  0207 725 5435
                                                                                            



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