Rule 26 Company Information

This website has been designed to comply with the requirements of Rule 26 of the AIM Rules for Companies - 'Company information disclosure'. This website is owned by Corac Group plc. It was last updated on 21 October 2009.

Corac Group plc is a public limited company incorporated, registered and mainly operating in England and Wales.

Registered office :
Brunel Science Park,
Kingston Lane,
Uxbridge,
Middlesex
UB8 3PQ.

Registered number: 3152034.

Download Corac Group plc Memorandum of Association (pdf).

Download Corac Group plc Articles of Association (pdf).

Securities Information

i. The company's issued share capital comprises 108,343,977 ordinary shares of nominal value 10p each. None of these are Treasury Shares and, to the best of the company's knowledge, a total of 17,021,997 (15.71%) are not in public hands.

ii. Significant shareholders

Beneficial owners

As at 21 October 2009, notifications had been received that the following entities held an interest and voting rights in more than 3.0% of the company’s issued share capital :-

 Shareholder

No. of shares   

  %

     

Prudential plc (see note)

14,131,820

13.04% 

Barclays PLC

7,294,581 

6.73% 

Calculus Capital Limited

6,500,739 

6.00% 

FIL Ltd (Fidelity, various funds)

3,979,104

3.67%

 

 

 

 

Note: A wholly owned subsidiary of Prudential plc has direct fund management control over M&G Investment Funds 3 (an Open Ended Investment Company) in respect of the above shares disclosed by Prudential plc.  M&G Investment Funds 3 is not a Prudential plc group company and therefore separate disclosure was required that they held an interest and voting rights in 14,131,820 ordinary shares representing 13.04% of the company's issued share capital.  This disclosure is in respect of the shares disclosed by Prudential plc and not in addition to it. 

The Directors of the company have an aggregate beneficial interest in 1,383,830 shares (1.26%) and the Corac Group plc EBT (Employee Benefit Trust) has a beneficial interest in 1,506,347 shares (1.39%). 

Registered holders

In addition, various entities were each the non-beneficial registered holder and/or fund manager of between 3% and 10% of the company’s share capital, mostly on behalf of the shareholders listed above. These include Bank of New York Nominees, Barclayshare Nominees Limited, BNY Mellon Nominees Ltd, Hargreaves Lansdown (Nominees) Limited, HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd, HSDL Nominees Ltd, LR Nominees Ltd, Nortrust Nominees Ltd, Smith & Williamson Nominees Ltd and TD Waterhouse Nominees (Europe) Ltd.

iii. The company’s shares are publicly traded on the AIM market in London. There are no restrictions on the transfer of AIM securities.