TIDMSMDS
RNS Number : 5962H
Smith (DS) PLC
01 December 2015
TR-1(i): NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing
shares to which voting rights are attached (ii):
DS Smith Plc
2. Reason for the notification:
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: ( )
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 (please specify): ( X ) Voluntary baseline disclosure in
line with the UK implementation of the Amended Transparency
Directive
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation
(iii):
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)
BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Limited
Chase Nominees Limited
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited
Nortrust Nominees Ltd
State Street Nominees Limited
The Bank of New York (Nominees) Limited
Vidacos Nominees Ltd.
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is
crossed or reached if different) (v):
N/A - Voluntary baseline disclosure in line with the UK
implementation of the Amended Transparency Directive
6. Date on which issuer notified:
30 November 2015
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
Voluntary baseline disclosure in line with the UK implementation
of the Amended Transparency Directive
8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE Situation previous to the Triggering transaction (vi)
Number of shares Number of voting Rights (viii)
GB0008220112 46,864,824 46,864,824
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (vii)
Class/type Number of Number of voting % of voting rights
of shares if shares rights (ix)
possible using
the ISIN CODE
Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
(x) (xi)
77,373 77,373 56,868,965 0.008% 6.020%
B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii)
Type of Expiration Exercise/Conversion Number of voting % of
financial Date (xiii) Period/ Date rights that voting
instrument (xiv) may be acquired rights
if the instrument
is exercised/
converted
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to
Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii)
Type Exercise Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting
of financial price date Conversion rights rights (xix)
instrument (xvii) period instrument (xx)
(xviii) refers to
CFD 210,000 Nominal Delta
0.022%
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights % of voting rights
57,156,338 6.050%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting
rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if
applicable ((xv) (:)
Threadneedle Asset Management Limited (5.300%)
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (0.025%)
Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC (0.725%)
Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC is wholly owned by
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, which is itself
wholly owned by Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
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 to hold:
N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
N/A
13. Additional information:
The Shares referred to in section 9 of this 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:
Mark Powney, Threadneedle Group
15. Contact telephone number:
01793 363135
Identity of the notifier, if applicable (xvii)
Full name:
Matthew Jowett
Contact address:
DS Smith Plc, 7(th) Floor, 350 Euston Road, London NW1 3AX
Phone number:
020 7756 1800
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