Significant buy by Fidelity. Might get things moving??
Merant PLC - Holding in Company
Date: 20 May 1999 11:39:40
Service: Regulatory News Service
RNS No 5469x
MERANT PLC
20 May 1999
Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares
1 Name of company:
MERANT plc
2 Name of shareholder having a major interest:
Fidelity Investments
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:
Same as above
4 Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them:
74,500 State Street Nominees Ltd for Fidelity Management Trust Company
6,623,149 Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Ltd for Fidelity Investment
Services Limited
85,600 Bankers Trust for Fidelity Pension Management
93,900 BT Globenet Nominees Ltd for Fidelity Pension Management
40,000 MSS Nominees Ltd for Fidelity Pension Management
472,600 Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Ltd for Fidelity
International Ltd
45,000 Mellon Trust for Fidelity International Ltd
182,400 Nortrust Nominees Ltd for Fidelity International Ltd
510,143 RBS Trust Bank for Fidelity International Ltd
205,000 Morgan Stanley for Fidelity International Ltd
1,400 Bankers Trust for Fidelity International Ltd
275,000 Held as 55,000 ADR's by Lloyds Bank Nominees Ltd for Fidelity
Management and Research Company
21,500 Held as 4,300 ADR's by Nortrust Nominees for Fidelity Management
Trust Company
5 Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:
1,407,874
6 Percentage of issued class:
1.0
7 Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:
8 Percentage of issued class:
9 Class of security:
2p Ordinary
10 Date of transaction:
18 May 99
11 Date company informed:
20 May 99
12 Total holding following this notification:
8,630,192
13 Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
6.01
14 Contact name for queries:
Philip Rosier
15 Contact telephone number:
01635-565583
16 Name of company official responsible for making notification:
Philip Rosier
17 Date of notification:
20 May 99
Additional Information:
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