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TR-1: Notification of Major Interest In Shares
Legal & General Group plc (group)
Thursday 30th July, 2009
| 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: | Innovision Research & Technology Plc |
| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): | ||
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An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | yes | |
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An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached |
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An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments |
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An event changing the breakdown of voting rights [change in share in Issue Figure due to placing of new shares] | Yes | |
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Other (please specify): |
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| 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:
| Legal & General group Plc (Group)
Legal & General Investment Management Limited (LGIM)
Legal & General Group Plc (L&G) |
| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
| Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (LAGS & LGPL) |
| 5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:
| 28 July 2009 |
| 6. Date on which issuer notified:
| 29 July 2009 |
| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
| Above 5% (group)
Above 5% (LGIM)
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| 8. Notified details: | |||||||
| A: Voting rights attached to shares
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| Class/type of
| Situation previous | Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | |||||
| Number | Number | Number | Number of voting | % of voting rights | |||
| Direct | Direct | Indirect | Direct | Indirect | |||
| GB0030308448 | Below 5% (LGIM
Below 3% (L&G) | Below 5% (LGIM
Below 3% (L&G) | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
| 5.46 |
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| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments | ||||
| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
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| Type of financial | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of voting
| % of voting |
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| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments | ||||||
| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
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| Type of financial | Exercise | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of voting | % of voting rights
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| Nominal | Delta
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| Total (A+B+C)
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| Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights |
| 5,000,000 | 5.46 |
| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Proxy Voting:
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| 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:
| Notification using the total voting rights figure of 91,556,121 |
| 14. Contact name:
| Brian McKenzie
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| 15. Contact telephone number:
| 01285 888240 |
About Innovision Research & Technology plc
Innovision Research & Technology plc, is leading the next generation of NFC/RFID solutions. As the leading fabless developer of Short-Range Data Communication semiconductor and system solutions, with particular focus on NFC/RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and ultra low-cost Integrated Circuit (IC) and RF electronic design, IRT is pushing cost performance to enable clients to get maximum utility for minimum cost.
The company develops innovative semiconductor technologies, ICs, RF systems (HF/UHF) and complete end product applications for mass volume commercialisation and then licenses customers for its incorporation into their own products.
At the heart of the emerging Near Field Communication (NFC) market, Innovision R&T designs and develops NFC/RFID IC solutions for the global mobile handset and consumer device sectors.
Products include Topaz, mandated by the NFC Forum as the NFC number one tag type format, Jewel for mass transit ticketing applications, and io, the world's smallest standards compatible Near-Field RFID reader.
Headquartered in the UK, Innovision R&T was listed in 2001 on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange (ticker symbol:INN).