Holding(s) in Company

TR-1(i): NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

 

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached (ii):

DS Smith Plc

 

2. Reason for the notification:

 

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: (    )

 

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): ( X   )  Voluntary baseline disclosure in line with the UK implementation of the Amended Transparency Directive

 

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation (iii):

    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group

 

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)

BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Limited

Chase Nominees Limited

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited

Nortrust Nominees Ltd

State Street Nominees Limited

The Bank of New York (Nominees) Limited

Vidacos Nominees Ltd.

 

5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different) (v):

N/A - Voluntary baseline disclosure in line with the UK implementation of the Amended Transparency Directive

 

6. Date on which issuer notified:

    30 November 2015

 

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

Voluntary baseline disclosure in line with the UK implementation of the Amended Transparency Directive

 

8. Notified details:

  

A: Voting rights attached to shares

 

Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the Triggering transaction (vi)
	Number of shares	Number of voting Rights (viii)
GB0008220112	46,864,824	46,864,824

 

 

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (vii)

 

Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Number of shares	Number of voting rights (ix)		% of voting rights
		Direct (x)	Indirect (xi)	Direct	Indirect
	77,373	77,373	56,868,965	0.008%	6.020%

 

 

B: Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii)

Type of financial instrument

Expiration Date (xiii)

Exercise/Conversion Period/ Date (xiv)

Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted

% of voting rights

 

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii)

 

Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date (xvii)	Exercise/ Conversion period (xviii)	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights (xix) (xx)
CFD				210,000	Nominal	Delta
					0.022%

 

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
57,156,338	6.050%

 

9.    Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable ^(xv):

Threadneedle Asset Management Limited (5.300%)

Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (0.025%)

Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC (0.725%)

 

Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC is wholly owned by Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, which is itself wholly owned by Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

 

Threadneedle Asset Management Limited is wholly owned by TC Financing Limited, which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Limited, which is itself wholly owned by TAM UK Holdings Limited, which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Holdings Limited,  which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings SARL, which is itself wholly owned by Ameriprise International Holdings GmbH, which is itself wholly owned by Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

 

 

 

Proxy Voting:

 

10. Name of the proxy holder:  N/A

 

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: N/A

 

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: N/A

 

13. Additional information:

The Shares referred to in section 9 of this form are held in portfolios and funds managed on a discretionary basis by the entities set out in section 9.

Please note that the Shares are held through certain nominee companies.

 

14. Contact name:
      Mark Powney, Threadneedle Group

 

15. Contact telephone number:
      01793 363135 

 

Identity of the notifier, if applicable (xvii)

 

Full name:

Matthew Jowett

 

Contact address:

DS Smith Plc, 7^th Floor, 350 Euston Road, London NW1 3AX

 

Phone number:

020 7756 1800