William Hill PLC

Major Shareholding Notification • Mar 26, 2013

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RNS Number : 9254A

William Hill PLC

26 March 2013

The following notification was received on Friday 22nd March  by William Hill PLC, relating to major interests in shares of William Hill PLC.

Dennis Read, Deputy Company Secretary

26 March 2013

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	William Hill PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
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		X
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	The Capital Group Companies, Inc
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	See Section 9
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	19 March 2013
6. Date on which issuer notified:	21 March 2013
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Above 10%

	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		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares		Number of voting rights		% of  voting rights
Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
Ordinary Shares		65,499,088			65,499,088		65,499,088		9.1140%
(ISIN: GB0031698896

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion Period	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights
N/A

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion period	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
Rights	245 pence	4 April 2013		13,375,350	Nominal	Delta
1.8611%

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
78,874,438	10.9751%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
No. of Shares    Percent of                                                                                                                                  Outstanding The Capital Group Companies, Inc ("CG") Holdings    78,874,438        10.975%            Holdings by CG Management Companies and Funds: ________________________________________________________________________ *Capital Research and Management Company                 78,874,438        10.975%      *Capital Income Builder

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:
14. Contact name and Contact Address:	[email protected]
15. Contact telephone number:	(213) 615 0469

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