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Major shareholders
The disclosure of certain major and significant shareholdings in the share
capital of the company is governed by the Companies Act 2006, the UK
Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules (DTR)
and the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Register of members holding BP ordinary shares as at
31 December 2013
Range of holdings
Number of ordinary
shareholders
Percentage of total
ordinary shareholders
Percentage of total
ordinary share capital
excluding shares
held in treasury
1-200 58,190 20.46 0.02
201-1,000 101,442 35.68 0.29
1,001-10,000 112,294 39.49 1.82
10,001-100,000 10,920 3.84 1.18
100,001-1,000,000 823 0.29 1.67
Over 1,000,000a678 0.24 95.02
Totals 284,347 100.00 100.00
aIncludes JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. holding 28.70% of the total ordinary issued share capital
(excluding shares held in treasury) as the approved depositary for ADSs, a breakdown of which is
shown in the table below.
Register of holders of American depositary shares (ADSs) as at
31 December 2013a
Range of holdings
Number of
ADS holders
Percentage of total
ADS holders
Percentage of total
ADSs
1-200 58,281 57.60 0.36
201-1,000 27,376 27.06 1.47
1,001-10,000 14,699 14.53 4.34
10,001-100,000 809 0.80 1.51
100,001-1,000,000 10 0.01 0.16
Over 1,000,000b1 0.00 92.16
Totals 101,176 100.00 100.00
aOne ADS represents six 25 cent ordinary shares.
bOne holder of ADSs represents 868,478 underlying shareholders.
As at 31 December 2013, there were also 1,510 preference
shareholders. Preference shareholders represented 0.45% and ordinary
shareholders represented 99.55% of the total issued nominal share
capital of the company (excluding shares held in treasury) as at that date.
In accordance with DTR 5, we have received notification that as at
31 December 2013 BlackRock, Inc held 5.61%, Legal & General Group
plc held 3.50% and The Capital Group Companies, Inc held 3.37% of the
voting rights of the issued share capital of the company. As at
18 February 2014 BlackRock, Inc held 5.73%, Legal & General Group plc
held 3.51% and The Capital Group Companies, Inc. held 3.35% of the
voting rights of the issued share capital of the company.
Under the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934 BP has received
notification of the following interests as at 18 February 2014:
Holder
Holding of
ordinary shares
Percentage
of ordinary
share capital
excluding
shares held
in treasury
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., depositary
for ADSs, through its nominee
Guaranty Nominees Limited 5,260,972,053 28.51
BlackRock, Inc. 1,057,431,913 5.73
The company’s major shareholders do not have different voting rights.
The company has also been notified of the following interests in
preference shares as at 18 February 2014:
Holder
Holding of 8%
cumulative first
preference shares
Percentage
of class
The National Farmers Union Mutual
Insurance Society 945,000 13.07
M & G Investment Management Ltd. 528,150 7.30
Smith & Williamson Investment
Management Ltd. 409,200 5.66
Duncan Lawrie Ltd. 364,876 5.04
Holder
Holding of 9%
cumulative second
preference shares
Percentage
of class
The National Farmers Union Mutual
Insurance Society 987,000 18.03
M & G Investment Management Ltd. 644,450 11.77
Smith & Williamson Investment
Management Ltd. 352,000 6.43
Royal London Asset Management Ltd. 338,000 6.18
Lazard Asset Management Limited disposed of its interests in 374,000
8% cumulative first preference shares and 404,500 9% cumulative
second preference shares during 2011.
Gartmore Investment Management Limited disposed of its interest in
394,538 8% cumulative first preference shares and 500,000 9%
cumulative second preference shares during 2010.
In accordance with DTR 5.8.12, The Capital Group of Companies, Inc.
notified the company on 24 September 2012 that due to their group
reorganization their holdings would not be reported separately but as a
combined holdings thereby taking their interest in shares above the 3%
threshold as of 1 September 2012.
As at 18 February 2014, the total preference shares in issue comprised
only 0.45% of the company’s total issued nominal share capital
(excluding shares held in treasury), the rest being ordinary shares.
No changes in interests in the share capital of the company have been
notified to the company in accordance with DTR 5 between
31 December 2013 and 18 February 2014.
Shareholder information
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