Pan PacificAggregate – Holding(s) in Company – 19/06/2008

    RNS Number : 0698X

  Pan Pacific Aggregates PLC

  19 June 2008

    TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES
    1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
    PAN PACIFIC AGGREGATES PLC 
    2. Reason for the notification: 
    AN ACQUISITION OR DISPOSAL OF VOTING RIGHTS
    3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:
    COLUMBIA NATIONAL INVESTMENTS LIMITED, HERBERT JAMES DUNTON AND ROBERT STEPHEN DUNTON
    4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
    COLUMBIA NATIONAL INVESTMENTS LIMITED
    5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):
    18 JUNE 2008
    6. Date on which issuer notified:
    18 JUNE 2008     
    7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
    5 AND 10%
    8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
 Class/type of sharesif             Situation of previous to the Triggering        Resulting Situation after the

triggering transaction

 possible using ISIN code                                       transaction

                                     Number of shares      Number of voting  Number of shares        Number of voting

% of voting

                                                                     rights                                    rights

rights

                                                                                                   Direct    Indirect

Direct  Indirect

 GB00B0M9M645                                       0                     0        80,000,000  80,000,000  80,000,000

42.88%    42.88%
B: Financial Instruments
 Resulting Situation after the triggering transaction

 Type of Financial Instrument  Expiration Date            Exercise /      Number of Voting  % of voting rights

                                                   Conversion Period    rights that may be

                                                               /Date       acquired if the

                                                                             instrument is

                                                                               exercised /

                                                                                 converted

 N/A                                       N/A                   N/A                   N/A                 N/A
Total (A + B)
 Number of Voting Rights  % of voting rights

 80,000,000                           42.88%
    9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively

held, if applicable
 COLUMBIA NATIONAL INVESTMENTS LIMITED ("CNI") ACQUIRED 80,000,000 ORDINARY

 SHARES IN THE COMPANY. HERBERT JAMES DUNTON AND ROBERT STEPHEN DUNTON OWN

 CNI AND THEREFORE ARE ABLE TO INDIRECTLY EXERCISE VOTING RIGHTS IN THE

 COMPANY.                                                                     
    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:
    WILLIAM VOADEN
    15. Contact telephone number:
    020 7096 9580
 Enquires:

 Pan Pacific Aggregates PLCWilliam Voaden                  Tel: 020 7096 9580

 Hanson Westhouse LimitedBill Staple/ Harry Barraclough    Tel: 020 7601 6100 
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