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250 BT Group plc
Annual Report 2016
Analysis of shareholdings at 31 March 2016
Ordinary shares of 5p each
Range
Number of
holdings
Percentage
of total
%
Number of
shares held
millions
Percentage
of total
%
1 – 399 320,874 38.80 68 0.68
400 – 799 218,768 26.45 122 1.22
800 – 1,599 160,581 19.42 180 1.81
1,600 – 9,999 120,822 14.62 370 3.72
10,000 – 99,999 4,722 0.57 89 0.89
100,000 – 999,999 679 0.08 260 2.61
1,000,000 – 4,999,999 331 0.04 759 7.61
5,000,000 and abovea,b,c,d 195 0.02 8,120 81.46
Totale826,972 100.00 9,968 100.00
a 16.6m shares were held in trust by Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited for allocation to employees under the employee share plans.
b Under the BT Group Employee Share Investment Plan, 54.9m shares were held in trust on behalf of 43,866 participants who were beneficially entitled to the shares. 381.1m shares were held in the
corporate nominee BT Group EasyShare on behalf of 90,670 beneficial owners.
c 137.9m shares were represented by ADSs. An analysis by size of holding is not available for these.
d 8.2m shares were held as treasury shares.
e 7.73% of the shares were in 813,035 individual holdings, of which 54,168 were joint holdings, and 92.27% of the shares were in 13,937 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 different voting rights to those of other shareholders.
At 29 April 2016, there were 9,968,127,681 ordinary shares outstanding, including 6,928,112 shares held as treasury shares. At the
same date, approximately 27.5m ADSs (equivalent to 137.9m ordinary shares, or approximately 1.38% of the total number of ordinary
shares outstanding on that date) were outstanding and were held by 1,545 record holders of ADRs.
At 31 March 2016, there were 3,489 shareholders with a US address on the register of shareholders who in total hold 0.02% of the
ordinary shares of the company.