Essentra Regulatory News (ESNT)

6 Dec 2006 17:14

Filtrona plc06 December 2006 FILTRONA PLC HOLDING(S) IN COMPANY 6 December 2006 Filtrona plc announces it was informed on 5 December 2006 that, following arecent in specie transfer of 604,860 shares, AMVESCAP PLC (AMVESCAP) andsubsidiary companies on behalf of discretionary clients have an interest withinthe meaning of Part VI of the Act in 32,971,572 Ordinary 25p Shares of Filtronaplc (representing 15.03%), details of that interest, together with a breakdownbetween registered holders (as required by Section 202(3) of the Act), are setout below:- Bank of Ireland (Dublin) 530,256Bank of New York 121,352Bank of New York (Brussels) 58,359JP Morgan Chase (Hong Kong) 151,759Chase Nominees 760,144Vidacos Nominees Limited 25,221,948HSBC Nominees 676,189Japan Trustee Services Bank 3,641Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh 229,049State Street Trust & Banking Co. (London) 3,003,000Trust & Custody Service JP 7,096Northern Trust Company (London) 444,779AIM Trimark 1,764,000 Filtrona plc was advised that none of these shares are beneficially owned byAMVESCAP. Subsidiary companies of AMVESCAP have a large number of portfoliomanagement clients for whom they act as investment manager and investmentadvisor and by virtue of Section 203 of the Companies Act 1985 AMVESCAP isdeemed to have the same interest in the shares. Name of contact and telephone number for queries Patricia KingdonDeputy Company Secretary01908 359100 Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Jon GreenCompany Secretary and General Counsel01908 359100 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange