Holding(s) in Company

Dec 22, 2011

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

RNS Number : 5094U
Advanced Medical Solutions Grp PLC
22 December 2011
 



 




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

 

   Advanced Medical Solutions Group

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights


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):

Increase in Total Voting Rights

X

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the
notification obligation:
iii

Investec Wealth & Investment Limited

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

N/A

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

20th December 2011

6. Date on which issuer notified:

22nd December 2011

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

Below 3%



 

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

 

Ordinary Shares

GB0004535694

 

 

4,684,957

 

 

 

4,684,957

 

 



 

6,008,544

 

 


 

2.95%

 

 


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







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

 





 

 

Nominal

Delta




Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

6,008,544

2.95%



 

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
xxi

Client holdings registered in the name of Nominee companies 100% owned by Investec Wealth & Investment Limited.

 


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:

 

N/A  

14. Contact name:

 

Phil Beardwell Chartered FCSI

Senior Compliance Manager

 

15. Contact telephone number:

 

020 7597 1356



 

Note: Annex should only be submitted to the FSA not the issuer

Annex: Notification of major interests in share


A: Identity of the persons or legal entity subject to the notification obligation

Full name

(including legal form of legal entities)

 

Investec Wealth & Investment Limited 

Contact address

(registered office for legal entities)

 

2 Gresham Street

London

EC2V 7QP

 

Phone number & email

 

0113 236 4171

mike.rigby@investecwin.co.uk

Other useful information

(at least legal representative for legal persons)

 

Mike Rigby

(Head of Compliance)   



B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable

Full name

 

Philip Martin Beardwell 

Contact address

 

2 Gresham Street

London

EC2V 7QN    

Phone number & email

 

020 7597 1356 

phil.beardwell@investecwin.co.uk

Other useful information

(e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)

Senior Compliance Manager


C: Additional information


For notes on how to complete form TR-1 please see the FSA website.

 

 


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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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