Novae Group plc: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares | Company Announcements

Monday 25 January, 2010

Novae Group plc

Notifications of Major Interests in Shares







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| TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares |
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|                                           |                                  |
|                                           |                                  |
|1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying|Novae Group plc                   |
|issuer of existing shares to which voting  |                                  |
|rights are attached:                       |                                  |
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|                                                                              |
|2. Reason for notification (yes/no)                                           |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+
|                                                                     |        |
|An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                          |Disposal|
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+
|                                                                     |        |
|An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result |        |
|in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights   |        |
|are attached                                                         |        |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+
|                                                                     |        |
|An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                     |        |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+
|                                                                     |        |
|Other (please specify):______________                                |        |
+--------------------------------+------------------------------------+--------+
|                                |                                             |
|3. Full name of person(s)       |Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)              |
|subject to notification         |                                             |
|obligation:                     |                                             |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|                                |                                             |
|4. Full name of shareholder(s)  |Legal & General Assurance (Pensions          |
|(if different from 3):          |Management) Limited (PMC)                    |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|                                |                                             |
|5. Date of transactions (and    |21 January 2010                              |
|date on which the threshold is  |                                             |
|crossed or reached if           |                                             |
|different):                     |                                             |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|                                |                                             |
|6. Date on which issuer         |22 January 2010                              |
|notified:                       |                                             |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|                                |                                             |
|7. Threshold(s) that is/are     |From 5% to 4%                                |
|crossed or reached:             |                                             |
+--------------------------------+----------+-------------------------+--------+
                                 |          |                         |

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|8: Notified Details                                                           |
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|A: Voting rights attached to shares                                           |
|                                                                              |
+-------------+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|Class/type of|Situation previous|Resulting situation after the triggering     |
|shares       |to the triggering |transaction                                  |
|If possible  |transaction       |                                             |
|use ISIN code+----------+-------+----------+------------------+---------------+
|             |Number of |Number |Number of |Number of voting  |Percentage of  |
|             |shares    |of     |shares    |rights            |voting rights  |
|             |          |voting |          +---------+--------+------+--------+
|Ordinary     |          |rights |          |Direct   |Indirect|Direct|Indirect|
|shares of £1 |          |       |          |         |        |      |        |
|each         |3,684,659 |       |3,651,159 |         |        |      |        |
|             |          |       |          |3,651,159|        |4.986%|        |
|GB00B2QCM188 |          |       |          |         |        |      |        |
+-------------+----------+-------+----------+---------+--------+------+--------+
              |          |       |          |         |        |      |



+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|B: Financial Instruments                                                      |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                          |
|                                                                              |
+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------+------------+
|Type of      |Expiration   |Exercise/     |No. of voting rights  |Percentage  |
|financial    |date         |conversion    |that may be acquired  |of voting   |
|instrument   |             |period/date   |(if the instrument    |rights      |
|             |             |              |exercised/converted)  |            |
+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------+------------+
|Not          |             |              |                      |            |
|applicable   |             |              |                      |            |
+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------+------------+

+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Total (A+B)                                           |
|                                                       |
+-------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights |
+-------------------------+-----------------------------+
|                         |                             |
| 3,651,159               | 4.986%                      |
+-------------------------+-----------------------------+

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or   |
|the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:                |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Legal  & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) 4,488,804 representing 6.13% |
|=  total position                                                             |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (Direct and Indirect)|
|4,488,804 representing 6.13%  = total position                                |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) 4,488,804            |
|representing 6.13% = total position                                           |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) 3,651,159 representing 4.986%              |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (Direct) 2,522,274   |
|representing 3.44%                                                            |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited 2,522,774 representing|
|3.44%                                                                         |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Legal & General Insurance Holdings Limited (Direct)                           |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Legal & General Assurance Society Limited                                     |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Legal & General Pensions Limited (Direct)                                     |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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| Proxy Voting:                                                          |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+-----+
| 10. Name of proxy holder:                                        | N/A |
|                                                                  |     |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+-----+
| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:     | N/A |
|                                                                  |     |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+-----+
| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: | N/A |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+-----+

+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| 13. Additional information: | Total voting rights figure is 73,221,346 |
|                             |                                          |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| 14 Contact name:            | Teresa Furmston                          |
|                             |                                          |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| 15. Contact telephone name: | 020 7903 7303                            |
|                             |                                          |
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