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RNS Number : 1115Y Barclays PLC 04 September 2025
FORM 8.5 (EPT/NON-RI)
PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN
EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY ("RI") STATUS
(OR WHERE RI STATUS IS NOT APPLICABLE)
Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")
1. KEY INFORMATION
(a) Name of exempt principal trader: BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD
(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose SPECTRIS PLC
relevant securities this form relates:
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt SPECTRIS PLC
principal trader is connected
(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken: 03 Sep 2025
(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal NO
trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?
2. POSITIONS OF THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a) Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or
offeree
to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (if any)
Class of relevant security: 5p ordinary
Interests Short Positions
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant securities owned
and/or controlled: 2,690,560 2.71% 707,443 0.71%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 497,268 0.50% 2,444,326 2.46%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 3,187,828 3.21% 3,151,769 3.17%
(b) Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors and other
executive
options)
Class of relevant security in relation to
which subscription right exists
Details, including nature of the rights
concerned and relevant percentages:
3. DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a) Purchases and sales
Class of relevant Purchase/sale Total number of Highest price per unit Lowest price per unit
security securities paid/received paid/received
5p ordinary Purchase 276,119 40.8327 GBP 40.5400 GBP
5p ordinary Sale 881,897 40.8200 GBP 40.5200 GBP
(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of Product Nature of dealing Number of Price per
relevant description reference unit
security securities
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 293,850 40.5256 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 6,829 40.5200 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 5,003 40.6028 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,064 40.6581 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 39,285 40.6714 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3,866 40.6862 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,250 40.7060 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,916 40.7061 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 10,376 40.7102 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,451 40.7178 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,299 40.7488 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,882 40.7607 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 123 40.7621 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,381 40.7640 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 396 40.7677 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 334 40.7700 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 442 40.7759 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 9,763 40.7785 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,470 40.7793 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 5,349 40.7800 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 819 40.7855 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 35 40.5400 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 15,727 40.6002 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 200 40.6548 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 3,087 40.6582 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 10 40.6832 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,036 40.7000 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 18,011 40.7003 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 8,055 40.7008 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 851 40.7031 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,215 40.7043 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,576 40.7169 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,305 40.7380 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 50 40.7400 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 25 40.7406 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,511 40.7478 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 294 40.7500 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,768 40.7583 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 363 40.7593 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,427 40.7631 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 5 40.7669 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 45 40.7779 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,469 40.7792 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 3,775 40.6698 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Opening Long 110,706 40.6718 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Long 4,231 40.6729 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Long 7,569 40.6730 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Long 10,820 40.6767 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Long 137,322 40.6918 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Long 300 40.6919 GBP
(c) Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)
(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class Product Writing, Number Exercise Type Expiry Option
of description purchasing, of price date money
relevant selling, securities per unit paid/
security varying etc to which received
option per unit
relates
(ii) Exercising
Class of relevant Product description Exercising/ exercised against Number of Exercise price per
security securities unit
(d) Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)
Class of relevant Nature of Dealings Details Price per unit (if
security applicable)
4. OTHER INFORMATION
(a) Indemnity and other dealings arrangements
Details of any indemnity or option arrangement, or any agreement or
understanding,
formal or informal, relating to relevant securities which may be an inducement
to deal
or refrain from dealing entered into by the exempt principal trader making the
disclosure and any party
to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:
NONE
(b) Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives
Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal,
between
the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any other person
relating to:
(i) the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option; or
(ii) the voting rights of future acquisition or disposal of any relevant
securities to which
any derivative is referenced:
NONE
(c) Attachments
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached? NO
Date of disclosure: 04 Sep 2025
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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