Rank Regulatory News (RNK)

16 Jun 2006 16:15

Rank Group PLC16 June 2006 SCHEDULE 10 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1) NAME OF COMPANY THE RANK GROUP PLC 2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST EMINENCE CAPITAL LLC 3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18 NOTIFIABLE INTEREST OF COMPANIES IN (2) ABOVE AND THEIR SUBSIDIARIES 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. SEE LETTER BELOW 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. 6) Percentage of issued Class (any treasury shares held by the company should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed 8) Percentage of issued Class (any treasury shares held by the company should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 9) Class of security ORDINARY SHARES 10) Date of transaction 13 JUNE 2006 11) Date company informed 16 JUNE 2006 12) Total holding following this notification 22,629,000 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification (any treasury shares held by the company should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 3.9% 14) Any additional information 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries CLARE DUFFILL - 0207 706 1111 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Date of Notification 16 JUNE 2006 Letter to Rank Group Plc We hereby notify you that as a result of purchases made on June 13, 2006 theclients of Eminence Capital LLC ("Eminence Capital"), whose Managing Member isRicky C.Sandler, have acquired an aggregate ownership in the ordinary shares ofRank Group Plc that exceeds 3%. Pursuant to section 198 of the Companies Act1985 (as amended), Eminence Capital hereby provides you notice of the interestheld by its clients in the ordinary shares of Rank Group Plc. The following table lists the registered holders. The percentage held by eachwas calculated using an issued and outstanding share count of 587,403,992ordinary shares, as provided by a representative of Rank Group Plc: Registered Holder No of shares % of outstanding shares Eminence Partners, L.P 8,748,030 1.5%Eminence Partners, II, L.P. 512,570 0.1%Eminence Fund, Ltd 8,412,230 1.4%Eminence Long Alpha, L.P 1,354,390 0.2%Eminence Long Alpha Master, Ltd 1,563,050 0.3%Eminence Leveraged Long Alpha,L.P 910,880 0.2%Eminence Leveraged Long Alpha,Master,Ltd 1,127,850 0.2% Total 22,629,000 3.9% From Stephen Maresco Eminence Capital LLC This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange