|
||||
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi
|
||||
|
|
|||
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing
shares to which voting rights areattached: ii
|
Pearson
PLC
|
|||
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate
box or boxes):
|
||||
An
acquisition or disposal of voting rights
|
X
|
|||
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):
|
Type 1
disclosure as per the Transparency Directive II
Regulation
|
X
|
||
3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification
obligation: iii
|
Schroders
plc
|
|||
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from
3.):iv
|
Schroder
Investment Management Limited
|
|||
5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is
crossed orreached: v
|
12.06.17
|
|||
6. Date on which issuer notified:
|
13.06.17
|
|||
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached: vi, vii
|
From
11%-12%
|
8. Notified details:
|
||||||||||||||||
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
|
||||||||||||||||
Class/type
ofshares
if
possible usingthe ISIN CODE
|
Situation
previousto the triggeringtransaction
|
Resulting
situation after the triggering transaction
|
||||||||||||||
NumberofShares
|
NumberofVotingRights
|
Numberof
shares
|
Number
of votingrights
|
% of
voting rights x
|
||||||||||||
Direct
|
Direct
xi
|
Indirect
xii
|
Direct
|
Indirect
|
||||||||||||
GB0006776081
|
97,022,937
|
96,072,463
|
99,729,596
|
N/A
|
98,753,346
|
N/A
|
12.005%
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
|
||||||||||||||||
Resulting
situation after the triggering transaction
|
||||||||||||||||
Type of
financialinstrument
|
Expirationdate
xiii
|
Exercise/Conversion
Period xiv
|
Number
of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/
converted.
|
% of
votingrights
|
||||||||||||
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying
Financial Instruments xv, xvi
|
||||||||||||||||
Resulting
situation after the triggering transaction
|
||||||||||||||||
Type of
financialinstrument
|
Exercise
price
|
Expiration
date xvii
|
Exercise/Conversion
period xviii
|
Number
of voting rights instrument refers to
|
% of
voting rights xix, xx
|
|||||||||||
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Nominal
|
Delta
|
||||||||||
N/A
|
N/A
|
|||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Total (A+B+C)
|
||||||||||||||||
Number of voting rights
|
Percentage of voting rights
|
|||||||||||||||
98,753,346
|
12.005%
|
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights
and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if
applicable: xxi
|
|
Schroder
Investment Management Limited
98,753,346
12.005%
|
|
|
|
Proxy Voting:
|
|
10. Name of the proxy holder:
|
|
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to
hold:
|
|
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting
rights:
|
|
|
|
13. Additional information:
|
This
disclosure is being made due to the legal entity position crossing
above the 12% threshold. The position for Schroders plc remains as
per the disclosure made 04.04.17.
The
shares referred to in section 9 are held in portfolios managed by
those firms on a discretionary basis for clients under investment
management agreements. This disclosure has been calculated based on
issued share capital amount 822,586,857.
|
14. Contact name:
|
Chloe
Talbot
|
15. Contact telephone number:
|
+44 207
658 6000
|
|
PEARSON
plc
|
|
|
Date: 14
June 2017
|
|
|
By: /s/
NATALIE DALE
|
|
|
|
------------------------------------
|
|
Natalie
Dale
|
|
Deputy
Company Secretary
|