Halfords Group PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2017

Apr 5, 2017

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RNS Number : 6651B

Halfords Group PLC

05 April 2017

TR-1 : NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii			Halfords Group plc
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights				YES
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		Vulcan Value Partners, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Vulcan") C.T.Fitzpatrick, an individual resident of Alabama, United States of America
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):iv		Vulcan Value Partners, LLC is the investment advisor to (1) Vulcan Value Partners Fund, a US mutual fund, (2) Vulcan Global Value Fund, plc, an Irish domiciled UCITS fund, and (3) a number of separately-managed client accounts. The custodian for the US mutual fund is BNY Mellon. The custodian for the UCITS fund is Sumitomo Mitsui Trustees (Ireland) Limited Various custodians, numbering 18 in total, serve as custodian for the separately-managed accounts. See additional information for the full list.
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v		17 March 2017
6. Date on which issuer notified:		4 April 2017
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii		5%

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
GB00B012TP20	Below 5%			Below 5%			N/A		N/A		10,082,143	N/A			5.06%
GB00B012TP20	Below 5%			Below 5%			N/A		N/A		120,827	N/A			0.06%
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument			Expiration date xiii		Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv					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 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
N/A													Nominal			Delta
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights								Percentage of voting rights
10,082,143								5.12% of which Vulcan exercises the voting rights over 5.06%. The voting rights of the remaining 0.06% of shares are not exercised by Vulcan, but the shares are held on behalf of their managed accounts.

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi
Vulcan Value Partners, LLC is controlled by C.T.Fitzpatrick by virtue of C.T.Fitzpatrick holding a majority of voting and economic rights in it.
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:	The 18 custodians referred to in item 4 above are as follows: BNY Wealth BNY-CEF BNY Mellon Comerica Bank Fidelity Fifth Third Bank JP Morgan Key Bank Mellon Asset Servicing Morgan Stanley Northern Trust Pershing PNC Bank Schwab State Street US Bank Wells Fargo Wilmington Trust
14. Contact name:	W.Blevins Naff (Chief Compliance Officer)
15. Contact telephone number:	+1 205 803 1582

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