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194 Additional information
Analysis of shareholdings at 31 March 2014
Ordinary shares of 5p each
Range
Number of
holdings
Percentage
of total
%
Number of
shares held
millions
Percentage
of total
%
1 – 399 369,166 39.52 77 0.95
400 – 799 248,750 26.63 138 1.69
800 – 1,599 180,148 19.29 201 2.47
1,600 – 9,999 130,026 13.92 396 4.86
10,000 – 99,999 4,833 0.52 90 1.10
100,000 – 999,999 642 0.07 244 2.99
1,000,000 – 4,999,999 300 0.03 685 8.40
5,000,000 and abovea,b,c,d 198 0.02 6,320 77.54
Totale934,063 100 8,151 100.00
a 61.3m shares were held in trust by Ilford Trustees (Jersey) /imited for allocation to employees under the employee share plans.
b 8nder the BT Group Employee Share Investment Plan, 68.8m shares were held in trust on behalf of 46,628 participants who were beneƬcially entitled to the shares. 267.7m shares were held in the
corporate nominee BT Group EasyShare on behalf of 86,033 beneƬcial owners.
c 122.5m shares were represented by ADSs. An analysis by size of holding is not available for these.
d 232.5m shares were held as treasury shares.
e 10.37% of the shares were in 920,375 individual holdings, of which 63,192 were joint holdings, and 89.63% of the shares were in 13,688 institutional holdings.
As far as the company is aware, the company is not directly or indirectly owned or controlled by another corporation or by the UK Government
or any other foreign government or by any other natural or legal person severally or jointly. There are no arrangements known to the company,
the operation of which may at a subsequent date result in a change in control of the company.
The company’s major shareholders do not have dierent voting rights to those of other shareholders.
At 2 May 2014, there were 8,151,227,029 ordinary shares outstanding, including 231,165,508 shares held as treasury shares. At the same date,
approximately 12.3m ADSs (equivalent to 122.5m ordinary shares, or approximately 1.50% of the total number of ordinary shares outstanding on
that date) were outstanding and were held by 1,709 record holders of ADRs.
At 31 March 2014, there were 3,715 shareholders with a US address on the register of shareholders who in total hold 0.03% of the ordinary shares
of the company.