TIDMSMDS
RNS Number : 9505G
Smith (DS) PLC
11 August 2016
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: (X )
Other (please specify): ( )
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 Ltd
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited
Nortrust Nominees LTD
Roy Nominees
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):
8 August 2016
6. Date on which issuer notified:
10 August 2016
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
Above the threshold of 5%
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 47,294,978 47,294,978
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)
69,097 69,097 47,596,116 0.007% 5.029%
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 290,477 Nominal Delta
0.031%
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights % of voting rights
47,955,690 5.067%
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 (4.348%)
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (0.009%)
Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC (0.710%)
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 asset Management Ltd.
15. Contact telephone number:
+44 (0) 1793 363 135
Identity of the notifier, if applicable (xvii)
Full name:
Iain Simm
Contact address:
DS Smith Plc, 7(th) Floor, 350 Euston Road, London NW1 3AX
Phone number:
020 7756 1800
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