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Analysis of shareholdings
Ordinary shares
of 25p each
Size of shareholding
at 31 March 2000
Number of
shareholders
Percentage
of total
Number of
shares held
(millions)
Percentage
of total
1 ± 399 816,165 45.0 173 2.7
400 ± 799 524,396 28.9 283 4.3
800 ± 1,599 317,874 17.6 347 5.3
1,600 ± 9,999 147,638 8.2 395 6.1
10,000 ± 99,999 3,742 0.2 96 1.5
100,000 ± 999,999 1,378 0.1 482 7.4
1,000,000 ± 4,999,999 377 ± 839 12.9
5,000,000 and above (a),(b),(c) 173 ± 3,892 59.8
Total 1,811,743 100.0 6,507 100.0(d)
(a) 19 million shares were held in trust by Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited for allocation to employees under the employee share schemes.
(b) Under the BT Employee Share Ownership Scheme 29 million shares were held in trust on behalf of 124,673 participants who were bene®cially
entitled to the shares. 22 million shares were held in the BT EasyShare corporate nominee service on behalf of 81,024 bene®cial owners.
(c) Approximately 90 million shares were represented by ADSs and a further 10 million shares were held by a nominee of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on
behalf of investors. Analysis by size of holding is not available for these holdings.
(d) 17.7% of the shares were in 1,751,341 individual holdings, of which 156,624 were joint holdings, and 82.3% of the shares were in 60,402
institutional holdings.
So far as the company is aware, no person is the bene¢cial owner of more than 10% of the company's ordinary shares, nor
is the company directly or indirectly owned or controlled by another corporation or by HM Government or any other
foreign government. 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.
At 16 May 2000, there were 6,507,406,018 ordinary shares outstanding. At the same date, approximately 9.2 million
ADSs (equivalent to 92 million ordinary shares, or approximately 1.4% of the total number of ordinary shares outstanding
on that date) were outstanding and were held by 2,016 record holders of ADRs.
CREST: London Stock Exchange settlement system
The company's ordinary shares are settled in CREST, the computerised system for settling sales and purchases of shares.
CREST is a voluntary system which enables shareholders, if they wish, to hold and transfer their shareholdings
electronically rather than by paper. Shareholders who wish to retain their certi¢cates are able to do so.
Individual savings accounts (ISAs)
Information about investing in BT shares through an ISA may be obtained from Halifax Share Dealing Limited, Westbank,
Water Lane, Leeds LS11 5TL (telephone 0870 600 9966). ISAs are also o¡ered by other organisations.
Additional information for shareholders
118 Annual report and Form 20-F