REG-Aberforth Partners SAR – Roxboro Group plc
Date/Range: 28-OCT-2004
Short Abstract: REG-Aberforth Partners SAR – Roxboro Group plc
FORM SAR 5
Lodge with a RIS or Newstrack, if appropriate, and the Takeover Panel.
A copy must also be sent to the company the shares of which are acquired.
Date of disclosure: 28/10/04
DISCLOSURE UNDER NOTE 3 OF RULE 5 OF THE RULES GOVERNING SUBSTANTIAL ACQUISITIONS OF SHARES (“SARs”)
Date of sale: 27/10/04
Sale of: Roxboro Group PLC
(1) (a) Class of voting shares (e.g. ordinary shares):
Ordinary Shares of 1.89p
(1) (b) Number of shares / rights over shares sold:
70,000 shares
N/A rights
(1) (c) If rights over shares sold, as opposed to the shares
themselves, specify nature of rights:
N/A
(2) (a) Resultant total holding of voting shares (and % of total voting
shares in issue):
7,176,927 (23.84%)
(2) (b) Resultant total holding of rights over shares (and % of total
voting shares in issue):
N/A (0.00%)
(2) (c) Total percentage:
23.84%
(3) Party making disclosure:
Aberforth Partners (as Investment Managers)
(4) (a) Name of person selling shares or rights over shares:
Aberforth Partners (as Investment Managers)
and, if different, beneficial owner:
N/A
(4) (b) Names of any other persons acting by agreement or understanding
see SAR 5):
N/A
Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (3) above:
N/A – Electronic Submission
(Also print name of signatory):
David Holland, For Aberforth Partners
Telephone and extension number:
0131 220 0733
For full details of the SARs disclosure requirements, see Rules 3 and 5
of the SARs. If in doubt, contact the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers,
Monitoring Section, Tel. No: 020 7638 0129.
(E-mail: monitoring@disclosure.org.uk)