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Major Shareholding Notification • Feb 12, 2013

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RNS Number : 6923X

Electrocomponents PLC

12 February 2013

Financial Services Authority

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:			Electrocomponents 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:		Ameriprise Financial, Inc.  and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):		See additional information under 13
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:		06 February 2013
6. Date on which issuer notified:		08 February 2013
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:		Above the threshold of 5%

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
GB000309442	N/A						78,278        78,278    22,304,805    0.018%     5.091%
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
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
														Nominal			Delta
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights								Percentage of voting rights
22,383,083									5.109%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the

financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Ameriprise Financial, Inc., which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of Columbia Management Investment advisers, Columbia Wanger Asset management, Threadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. and Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, which itsel controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd, Threadneedle International Ltd and Threadneedle Pensions Ltd.

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:

Registered Owner

Chase Nominees Ltd

A/c41407

2,000,000

State Street Nominees Limited

A/c XC7N

1,398,960

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited

A/c 683182

849,704

The Bank of New York (Nominees) Ltd

A/c PTG 15303/09997799

113,165

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd

A/c 811056

103,443

Nortrust Nominees Ltd

A/c BBH05

307,058

William& Glyns (Isle of Man Nominees Ltd

A/c 301780

136,854

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c ZLA01

400,000

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c ZLA03

673,079

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c27642

78,278

Littledown Nominees

A/c 10479

10,341

Mellon Nominees (UK) Ltd

A/c WWSF0004002

340,210

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c18667

710,619

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c 10469

474,406

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c10496

9,107,279

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c 10492

1,092,698

Litttledown Nominees Ltd

A/c 10491

3,626,989

Littledown Nominees Ltd

A/c 10495

960,000

14. Contact name:

Ian Haslegrave

15. Contact telephone number:

01865 207491

16. Date:

12 February 2013

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