Holding(s) in Company

Mar 23, 2010

Advanced Medical Solutions Group plc
(“AMS” or the “Group”)

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Advanced Medical Solutions Grp PLC
23 March 2010
 



 

 

 

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:

 

ADVANCED MEDICAL SOLUTIONS GROUP

 

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:

 

AXA S.A. 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):

 


5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:

 

22/03/2010

6. Date on which issuer notified:

 

23/03/2010

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

 

11%

 

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

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect


15,691,554

15,691,554

400,000

400,000

15,941,554

0.28

10.99

453659

 

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

16,341,554

11.27%

 

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

financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

 

 

Name of the Company/Fund Number of Shares % of issued share capital

AXA IM UK

Direct

 400,000.00 0.275831

AXA IM UK

Indirect

 15,941,554.00 10.992934
Total Direct

Total Indirect

 400,000

15,941,554

 0.27583

10.99293
TOTAL 16,341,554 11.26877

 

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:

 


14. Contact name:

 

Kyere Tabiri

15. Contact telephone number:

 

020 7003 1510

 


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For further information, please contact:

Advanced Medical Solutions Group plc

Tel: 44 (0) 1606 545508

Chris Meredith, Chief Executive Officer

Eddie Johnson, Chief Financial Officer

Michael King, Investor Relations

Consilium Strategic Communications

Tel: 44 (0) 20 3709 5700

Matthew Neal / Lucy Featherstone

Investec Bank PLC (NOMAD & Broker)

Tel: 44 (0) 20 7597 5970

Gary Clarence / David Anderson

HSBC Bank PLC (Broker)

Tel: 44 (0) 20 7991 8888

Sam McLennan / Joe Weaving / Stephanie Cornish

About Advanced Medical Solutions Group plc

AMS is a world-leading independent developer and manufacturer of innovative tissue-healing technology, focused on quality outcomes for patients and value for payers. AMS has a wide range of surgical products including tissue adhesives, sutures, haemostats, internal fixation devices and internal sealants, which it markets under its brands LiquiBand®, RESORBA®, LiquiBandFix8® and Seal-G®. AMS also supplies wound care dressings such as silver alginates, alginates and foams through its ActivHeal® brand as well as under white label. Since 2019, the Group has made five acquisitions: Sealantis, an Israeli developer of innovative internal sealants; Biomatlante, a French developer and manufacturer of surgical biomaterials, Raleigh, a leading UK coater and converter of woundcare and bio-diagnostics materials, AFS Medical, an Austrian specialist surgical business and Connexicon, an Irish tissue adhesives specialist.

AMS's products, manufactured in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Israel, are sold globally via a network of multinational or regional partners and distributors, as well as via AMS's own direct sales forces in the UK, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Russia. The Group has R&D innovation hubs in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France and Israel. Established in 1991, the Group has more than 800 employees. For more information, please see admedsol.com.

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