Greggs PLC

Major Shareholding Notification • Oct 17, 2016

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RNS Number : 6900M

Greggs PLC

17 October 2016

TR1 - NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES 

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii		Greggs plc
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			X
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):
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: iii	MFS Investment Management
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):iv	MFS invests in securities of the issuer on behalf of its various mutual funds and institutional account clients.
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v	13 October 2016
6. Date on which issuer notified:	14 October 2016
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii	5.00%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
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 x
Direct	Direct xi	Indirect xii	Direct	Indirect
Ordinary GB00B63QSB39	Below 5%	Below 5%			5,314,697		5.25%

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

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
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
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
5,314,697	5.25%

Entity MFS Investment Management (LUX) S.A.	Holding 1,101	Percentage Held 0.00%
MFS Investment Management Canada Ltd.	211,816	0.21%
MFS Investment Management	2,520,287	2.49%
MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc.	186,630	0.18%
MFS International (U.K.) Ltd.	2,272,967	2.25%
MFS Investment Management K.K.	14,341	0.01%
MFS International Singapore Pte. Ltd.	107,555	0.11%
Notifiable Interest	5,314,697	5.25%
Shares Outstanding	101,155,910

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:
14. Contact name:
15. Contact telephone number:

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