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Friday 04 December, 2009

G4S plc

Statement re TR-1 Notification of Major Interes...





Statement re TR-1 Notification of Major Interest in Shares


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|For filings with the FSA include the annex           |                                           |
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|For filings with issuer exclude the annex            |                                           |
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|TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                                                   |
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|1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer     |                                         |
|of existing shares to which voting rights are          |G4S plc                                  |
|attached: ii                                           |                                         |
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|2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):                        |
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|An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                                               | YES  |
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|An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the    |      |
|acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached                  |      |
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|An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying      |      |
|financial instruments                                                                     |      |
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|An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                                          |      |
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|Other (please         |                                                                   |      |
|specify):             |                                                                   |      |
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|3. Full name of person(s) subject to the        |BlackRock, Inc.                                 |
|notification obligation: iii                    |                                                |
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|4. Full name of shareholder(s)                  |                                                |
| (if different from 3.):iv                      |                                                |
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|5. Date of the transaction and date on          |                                                |
|which the threshold is crossed or               |1st December 2009                               |
|reached: v                                      |                                                |
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|6. Date on which issuer notified:               |3rd December 2009                               |
|------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------|
|7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or          |Holding has gone above 5%                       |
|reached: vi, vii                                |                                                |
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|8. Notified details:                                                                             |
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|A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix                                                     |
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|Class/type of   |Situation previous         |Resulting situation after the triggering transaction|
|shares          |to the triggering          |                                                    |
|if possible     |transaction                |                                                    |
|using           |---------------------------+----------------------------------------------------|
|the ISIN CODE   |Number       |Number       |Number    |Number of voting     |% of  voting rights|
|                |of           |of           |of shares |rights               |x                  |
|                |Shares       |Voting       |----------+---------------------+-------------------|
|                |             |Rights       |Direct    |Direct  |Indirect xii|Direct    |Indirect|
|                |             |             |          |xi      |            |          |        |
|----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+--------+------------+----------+--------|
|ORD             |             |             |          |        |            |          |        |
|----------------|N/A          |N/A          |N/A       |N/A     |84,696,022  |N/A       |6.01%   |
|GB000B01FLG62   |             |             |          |        |            |          |        |
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|B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                              |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                             |
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|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.   |           |
|------------------------+-------------+---------------------+------------------------+-----------|
|                        |             |                     |                        |           |
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|                                                                                                 |
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|C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi|
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                             |
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|Type of financial  |Exercise  |Expiration |Exercise/   |Number of voting rights  |% of voting    |
|instrument         |price     |date xvii  |Conversion  |instrument refers to     |rights xix, xx |
|                   |          |           |period xviii|                         |               |
|-------------------+----------+-----------+------------+-------------------------+---------------|
|                   |          |           |            |2,224,670                |Nominal  |Delta|
| CFD               |N/A       |N/A        |N/A         |                         |---------+-----|
|                   |          |           |            |                         | 0.16%   |     |
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|Total (A+B+C)                                                                                    |
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|Number of voting rights                            |Percentage of voting rights                  |
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|86,920,692                                         |6.16%                                        |
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting      |
| rights and/or the                                                 |
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi    |
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|  On 1 December 2009, the Barclays Global Investors (BGI) business |
| was acquired by BlackRock, Inc.  The combined holdings of         |
| BlackRock, Inc, following this acquisition triggered this         |
| disclosure requirement.                                           |
|                                                                   |
| BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited 86,920,692 (6.16%)   |
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| Proxy Voting:                                                     |
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder:                   | N/A             |
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will   |                 |
| cease                                           | N/A             |
| to hold:                                        |                 |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to    |                 |
| hold                                            | N/A             |
| voting rights:                                  |                 |
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| 13. Additional information:   |                                   |
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| 14. Contact name:             | Peter David, Company Secretary    |
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| 15. Contact telephone number: | 01293 554584                      |
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