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Ontex Group NV — Major Shareholding Notification 2015
Mar 27, 2015
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Major Shareholding Notification
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PRESS RELEASE Regulated information
Ontex: Transparency Declaration Notification
Disclosure made according to the requirements of Article 14 of the law of 2 May 2007
Aalst-Erembodegem (Belgium), 27 March 2015 – Ontex Group NV ("Ontex") discloses the notifications of significant shareholdings that it has received according to the Belgian Law of 2 May 2007 on the disclosure of significant shareholdings in listed companies.
On 17 March 2015, BlackRock, Inc., and its affiliated entities, notified Ontex that it had acquired 3,517,986 shares in Ontex and so had crossed the threshold of 5% of the total number of voting rights in Ontex to 5.17%.
According to its obligation Ontex publishes the content of the notifications that it has received.
Date of Notifications: 20 March 2015
Date Thresholds Crossed: 17 March 2015
Thresholds Crossed: 5.00%
Notifications by:
| BlackRock, Inc | 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055, U.S.A. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A. | 6D, Route de Trèves, Senningerberg, L-2633, Luxembourg | |||
| BlackRock Advisors (UK) | 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K. | |||
| Limited | ||||
| BlackRock Advisors, LLC | 100 Bellevue Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19809, U.S.A. | |||
| BlackRock Asset Management | 161 Bay Street, Suite 2500, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2S1, | |||
| Canada Limited | Canada | |||
| BlackRock Asset Management | International Financial Services Centre, Dublin 1, Ireland | |||
| Ireland Limited | ||||
| BlackRock Asset Management | Bahnhofstraβe 54, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland | |||
| Schweiz AG | ||||
| BlackRock Fund Advisors | 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S.A. | |||
| BlackRock Fund Managers | 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K. | |||
| Limited | ||||
| BlackRock Institutional Trust | 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S.A. | |||
| Company, National Association | ||||
| BlackRock International Limited | 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K. | |||
| BlackRock Investment | 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K. |
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| Management (UK) Limited | |
|---|---|
| BlackRock Investment Management, LLC |
1 University Square Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A. |
| BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. | Marunouchi Trust Tower Main, 1-8-3 Marunouchi Chiyoda ku, Tokyo, 100-8217 Japan |
Denominator on the date of notifications: 68,055,555 shares
Voting rights and assimilated financial instruments:
Notification of 17 March 2015:
| Previous notification |
After the transaction | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # voting rights |
# voting rights | % of voting rights | ||||
| Holders of | Linked to | Not linked | Linked to | Not linked | ||
| voting rights | securities | to securities | securities | to securities | ||
| BlackRock, Inc | 0 | 0.00% | ||||
| BlackRock | ||||||
| (Luxembourg) S.A. | 2,074,385 | 3.05% | ||||
| BlackRock Advisors | ||||||
| (UK) Limited | 14,685 | 0.02% | ||||
| BlackRock | ||||||
| Advisors, LLC | 125,080 | 0.18% | ||||
| BlackRock Asset | ||||||
| Management | 0 | 0.00% | ||||
| Canada Limited | ||||||
| BlackRock Asset | ||||||
| Management | 33,969 | 0.05% | ||||
| Ireland Limited | ||||||
| BlackRock Asset | ||||||
| Management | 136 | 0.00% | ||||
| Schweiz AG | ||||||
| BlackRock Fund | 115,250 | 0.17% | ||||
| Advisors | ||||||
| BlackRock Fund | 818,711 | 1.20% | ||||
| Managers Limited | ||||||
| BlackRock | ||||||
| Institutional Trust | 194,681 | 0.29% | ||||
| Company, National | ||||||
| Association | ||||||
| BlackRock International |
21,420 | 0.03% | ||||
| Limited | ||||||
| BlackRock | ||||||
| Investment | ||||||
| Management (UK) | 56,852 | 0.08% | ||||
| Limited | ||||||
| BlackRock | ||||||
| Investment | 19,467 | 0.03% | ||||
| Management, LLC |
| BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. |
43,350 | 0.06% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| subtotal | 3,517,986 | 5.17% | ||
| 3,517,986 | 0 | 5.17% | 0.00% |
Chain of controlled entities through which the shareholding is effectively owned:
BlackRock, Inc. is the ultimate controller but the legal entities detailed in the section above are the discretionary Investment Managers who hold the shares and exercise the voting rights.
Notifications of significant shareholdings to be made according to the Law of 2 May 2007 should be sent to: [email protected]
This notification will be posted on:http://www.ontexglobal.com/press-room
INVESTOR ENQUIRIES
Ontex Investor Relations Philip Ludwig
+32 53 333 730 [email protected]
Fairvue Partners +44 20 7614 2900 [email protected]
PRESS ENQUIRIES
Gaëlle Vilatte +32 53 333 708 [email protected]
About Ontex
Ontex is a leading manufacturer of branded and retailer brand hygienic disposable products across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Company primarily sells its products to retailers, helping them to establish or enhance their own brands. While historically Western Europe has been the Company's largest geographic market in terms of sales (68% of sales in 2013), the Company also has a growing presence in emerging markets where it offers both retailer brands and its own brands, with the mix varying by product category and geography. The Company believes that it operates a strong and diversified business across multiple geographies and serves a blue chip customer base with high quality products in core, resilient and nondiscretionary categories.