Holding(s) in Company

14 Sep 2005 16:28

Electrocomponents PLC14 September 2005 ELECTROCOMPONENTS PLC ("the Company") NOTIFICATION UNDER SECTION 198 - COMPANIES ACT 1985 The Company received notification from Franklin Templeton Investments onSeptember 14th September 2005 (dated 13th September 2005) in accordance withSection 198 of the Companies Act that Franklin Resources, Inc. and itsaffiliates on behalf of clients (detailed below), had an interest in 21,912,390Ordinary shares of Electrocomponents PLC representing a total of 5.03% of thetotal issued share capital of the Company, which now represents a notifiableinterest in the share capital of the Company. Registered Holder Number of Shares % held Bank of New York, London 109,200 0.0251JP Morgan Chase Bank 21,006,400 4.8262Citibank Nominees Ltd 129,600 0.0298HSBC Bank 202,189 0.0465Mellon Bank 12,800 0.0029Royal Trust Corp. of Canada 167,315 0.0384State Street Nominees Limited 284,886 0.0655 TOTAL 21,912,390 5.0343 CARMELINA CARFORA Group Company Secretary 14th September 2005 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange