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TR-1: Notification of Major Interest In Shares

Herald Investment Management Limited

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 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:

 

 Herald Investment Management Limited

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

 

 Bank of New York (OCS) Nominees Ltd on behalf of Herald Investment Trust Plc

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

 

 Contract date 3rd July 2009 (shares to be admitted to trading 28th July 2009)

6. Date on which issuer notified:

 

 28th July 2009

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

 

 10%, 11%, 12%


 

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

 

 6,038,888 (9.81%)

Nil

 11,594,438 (12.66%)

 

 11,594,438

 

 12.66%

 GB0030308448

 

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

 None

 

 

 

 Nil

 

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

 11,594,438

 12.66%

 

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

Herald Investment Management Limited, a discretionary investment manager, is the parent undertaking of an investment management business.

 

Shareholder: Herald Investment Trust (in the name of Bank of New York (OCS Nominees Limited))

11,594,438

12.66%

Total for funds under management of Herald Investment Management Limited

11,594,438

12.66%

 

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:

 

 

14. Contact name:

 

 Brian McKenzie

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).

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