SIMONDS GROUP LIMITED — Major Shareholding Notification 2014

Dec 7, 2014

FORM 603

Corporations Act 2001 Section 671B

NOTICE OF INITIAL SUBSTANTIAL HOLDER

To: Company Name/Scheme SIO - Simonds Group Limited ACN/ARSN 143 841 801

143 841 801

1. Details of Substantial Holder(1)

Name Acorn Capital Limited ACN/ARSN (if applicable) 082 694 531 The holder became a substantial holder on 4/12/2014

2. Details of Voting Power

The total number of votes attached to all the voting shares in the company or voting interests in the scheme that the substantial holder or an associate (2) had a relevant interest (3) in on the date the substantial holder became a substantial holder are as follows:

Class of Securities (4)	Number of Securities	Person's Votes (5)	Voting Power (6)
Ordinary	7,826,317	7,826,317	5.17%

3. Details of Relevant Interests

The nature of the relevant interest the substantial holder or an associate had in the following voting securities on the date the substantial holder became a substantial holder are as follows:

Holder of Relevant Interest	Nature of Relevant Interest (7)	Class and Number of Securities
Acorn Capital Limited	Power to (or to control) exercise vote and/ordispose of the shares as discretionary	7,826,317
	investment managers or advisers to
	superannuation funds, pooled
	superannuation trusts, managed investment
	schemes and investment management
	agreements

4. Details of Present Registered Holders

The persons registered as holders of the securities referred to in Paragraph 3 above are as follows:

Holder of Relevant Interest	Registered Holder of Securities	Person Entitled to be	Class and Number of
		Registered as Holder(8)	Securities
Microcap Investment Trust 1	National Nominees		18,932
Acorn Capital Investment Fund	National Nominees		413,624
Auscoal Superannuation Fund	JP Morgan Chase Nominees		571,026
Acorn Capital Microcap Trust	National Nominees		633,975
UniSuper	National Nominees		667,710
Queensland Local Government Superannuation	JP Morgan Chase Nominees		898,823
Commonwealth Bank Officers' Superannuation Fund	Citicorp Nominees		972,417
Commonwealth Super Corporation	HSBC Custody Nominees (AUS) Ltd		1,027,182
Microcap Investment Trust 2	National Nominees		1,207,409
Sunsuper Fund	HSBC Custody Nominees (AUS) Ltd		1,415,219

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5. Consideration

The consideration paid for each relevant interest referred to in paragraph 3 above, and acquired in the four months prior to the day that the substantial holder became a substantial holder is as follows:

Holder of Relevant InterestAcorn Capital Limited	Date of Acquisition	Consideration(9)	Consideration(9)	Class and Number of Securities
		Cash	Non-Cash
	14-Nov-2014 to 08-Dec-2014	$13,719,026.49		7,826,317

6. Associates

The reasons the persons named in Paragraph 3 above are associates of the substantial holder are as follows:

Name and ACN/ARSN (if applicable) Name of Association

7. Addresses

The addresses of persons named in this form are as follows:

Name	Address
All Relevant Holders	C/O Acorn Capital Limited, Level 12, 90 Collins Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000

Print Name PAUL PALUMBO Capacity Portfolio Manager Sign Here Date 8/12/2014

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