Fidelity - Notice of Interest
January 27 2004 - 12:21PM
UK Regulatory
RNS Number:7007U
William Hill PLC
27 January 2004
Tuesday 27th January 2003
Amendment #12
NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 - UK COMPANIES ACT
1. Company in which shares are held: William Hill Plc
2. Notifiable Interest: Ordinary Shares
(A) FMR Corp
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109
Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO),
investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company
(FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager
of various pension and trust accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of
Registered Shareholders and their holdings).
(B) Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
P. O. Box HM 670
Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda
Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including
Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL) and Fidelity Pension Management (FPM),
investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional
clients. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their
holdings.)
3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:
Mr Edward C. Johnson 3d
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109
A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited.
4. The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of
authorised unit trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from
reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1) (h) of the Companies Act 1985.
5. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute
separate notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the
purposes of clarity and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate
that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity International
Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d act
as a group or in concert in respect of the disclosed interests, or that they are
required to submit these notifications on a joint basis.
6. The disclosable interests arise under section 208 (4) (b)
of the Act, namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled
to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the
exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively.
By Eric D. Roiter
Senior V.P. & General Counsel- FMR Co.
Duly authorised under Powers of Attorney
dated December 30, 1997, by and on behalf of FMR Corp, and its direct and
indirect subsidiaries, and Fidelity International Limited and its direct and
indirect subsidiaries
Schedule A
Security: William Hill Plc
Shares Held Management Nominee/Registered Name
Company
(Ordinary Shares)
7,021,690 FMRCO Chase Nominees Limited
13,770,643 FMRCO HSBC
794,900 FMRCO State Street Nominees Limited
757,600 FMRCO State Street Bank & Trust Company
498,486 FMRCO Mellon Bank
5,000 FMRCO JP Morgan Chase
122,800 FMTC State Street Nominees Ltd
647,000 FMTC Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited
223,100 FMTC JP Morgan Chase
120,600 FMTC Northern Trust
415,700 FMTC State Street Bank & Trust
101,800 FMTC Morgan Stanley & Co
4,800 FMTC Bank of New York
144,400 FMTC Sumitomo T&B
46,100 FMTC Chase Nominees Ltd
15,897,625 FISL Chase Manhattan Bank London
1,944,700 FISL Chase Nominees Ltd
172,800 FPM Mellon Nominees Ltd
630,600 FPM Bankers Trust
199,074 FPM Chase Nominees Ltd
586,100 FPM Bank of New York London
345,800 FPM HSBC
258,100 FPM Citibank
223,100 FPM Northern Trust
45,200 FPM Deutsche Bank
41,500 FPM Citibank
2,215,901 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank London
727,748 FIL State Street Bank & Trust
4,308,698 FIL Bank of New York London
2,264,812 FIL Northern Trust
522,400 FIL JP Morgan
613,859 FIL Deutsche Bank
635,530 FIL Nortrust Nominees Ltd
250,400 FIL Chase Nominees Ltd
517,800 FIL State Street Nominees Ltd
351,200 FIL Morgan Stanley
101,800 FIL Citibank
59,300 FIL Mellon Nominees Ltd
397,000 FIL Bank of New York Brussels
124,934 FIL HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK)
Limited
17,100 FIL National Australia Bank
8,600 FIL PICG
156,300 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank AG Frankfurt
68,047 FIL Brown Brothers Harriman
17,400 FIL KAS Associates
10,800 FIL State Street Hong Kong
Total Ordinary Shares: 58,388,847
Current ownership 13.84%
percentage:
Shares in issue: 421,811,100
Change in holdings (680,731)
since last filing: ordinary shares
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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