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2007-12-13 16:30:00 CET 2007-12-13 16:30:00 CET REGULATED INFORMATION Kesko Oyj - Major shareholder announcementsNotification of a change in ownership interest under Chapter 2, Section 10 of the Finnish Securities Market ActKESKO CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE NOTIFICATION 13.12.2007 Notification of a change in ownership interest under Chapter 2, Section 10 of the Finnish Securities Market Act Under Chapter 2, Section 9 of the Finnish Securities Market Act, Kesko Corporation has been notified by Barclays Plc and Barclays Global Investor UK Limited that the ownership interest of Barclays Plc in Kesko Corporation has fallen below 5% of the total number of shares on 11 December 2007, whilst Barclays Global Investor UK Limited holds over 5% of the total number of Kesko Corporation shares. Barclays Plc (registered as a public limited company in England and Wales under No. 48839) has notified Kesko that it has on 5 October 2007 notified the Finnish Financial Supervision Authority (the “FFSA”) that it applies the disaggregation exemption set out in the Decree of the Ministry of Finance on the Disclosure and Publication of Shareholdings to disaggregate holdings of its EEA subsidiary fund management companies. Under the exemption as applied by Barclays Plc, Barclays Plc reports its holdings separately from the holdings of its EEA subsidiary, Barclays Global Investor UK Holding Limited (registered as a limited company in England and Wales under No. 03867180) and its five subsidiary fund management companies, Barclays Global Investors Limited, Woolwich Unit Trust Managers Limited, Barclays Global Investors (Deutschland) AG, Barclays Global Investors N.A. and Barclays Global Fund Advisors, whose holdings will be aggregated with those of their interim parent company, Barclays Global Investor UK Holdings Limited. According to its notification, Barclays Plc also has on 5 October 2007 applied for permission from the FFSA to disaggregate its holdings and the holdings of the non-EEA licensed subsidiary fund management companies (Barclays Global Investors N.A and Barclays Global Fund Advisors) of the parent company Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Limited. The FFSA has granted such permission on 11 December 2007. Due to the application by Barclays Plc of the above disaggregation exemption and permission from the FFSA, according to notification of Barclays Plc, (i) Barclays Plc's holding in Kesko Oyj (the “Company”), by applying the relevant aggregation rules, has fallen below 5 % of the total number of shares (ii) whilst its subsidiary's, Barclays Global Investor UK Holdings Limited's, holding in the Company, by applying the relevant aggregation rules, remains above 5% of the total number of shares. By applying the above disaggregation and taking into account that the below mentioned Barclays Global Investors Limited owns also itself (and not only as a fund manager) shares in the Company, the exact holdings of Barclays Plc and Barclays Global Investor UK Holdings Limited are, according to their notification, as set out below. The name of the target company: Kesko Corporation (business ID 0109862-8) The date of the change in ownership interest: 11 December 2007 Shareholder: Barclays Plc (registered as a public limited company in England and Wales under No. 48839) Shareholder's Number of Kesko Proportion of Proportion of complete name, Corporation B shares voting rights registered shares number Barclays 0 0.00% 0.00% Investors Japan Trust & Banking (Registered Number: 50223380) Barclays Global 404,447 0.41% 0.11% Investors Japan Ltd (Registered Number: 030329) Barclays Global 503,171 0.51% 0.13% Investors Ltd (Registered Number: 796793) Barclays Bank 31,930 0.03% 0.01% SA (Registered Number: M- 62.564 Madrid) Barclays Global 52,071 0.05% 0.01% Investors Canada Ltd (Registered Number: 1456002) TOTAL 991,619 1.01% 0.26% Shareholder: Barclays Global Investor UK Holding Limited (registered as a limited company in England and Wales under No. 03867180) Shareholder's Number of Kesko Proportion of Proportion of complete name, Corporation B shares voting rights registered shares number Barclays Global 1,430,041 1.46% 0.37% Investors Ltd (Registered Number: 796793) Barclays Global 812,980 0.83% 0.21% Investors (Deutschland) AG (Registered Number: HRB134527) Barclays Global 2,905,299 2.97% 0.76% Investors N.A. (Registered Number: 22121) Barclays Global 44,846 0.05% 0.01% Fund Advisors (Registered Number: 94- 2948313) TOTAL 5,193,166 5.31% 1.35% Neither Barclays Plc nor Barclays Global Investor UK Holdings Limited holds any A shares in Kesko Corporation. The total number of Kesko Corporation's shares is 97,759,815, of which 31,737,007 are A shares and 66,022,808 B shares. The total number of votes carried by the shares is 383,392,878. Further information is available from Corporate Counsel Jarkko Karjalainen, tel. +358 1053 22602. Kesko Corporation Paavo Moilanen Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications DISTRIBUTION Helsinki Stock Exchange Main news media |
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