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140 Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2010
Shareholder information
Shareholder information continued
Analysis of shareholding
Significant shareholders of NV
As far as Unilever is aware, the only holders of more than 5% (as referred to in the Act on Financial Supervision in the Netherlands) in
the NV share capital (apart from the Foundation Unilever NV Trust Office, see page 50, and shares held in treasury by NV, see page
139) are ING Groep N.V. (‘ING’), and ASR Nederland N.V. (‘ASR’).
The voting rights of such shareholders are the same as forother holders of the class of share indicated. The two shareholders have
each notified the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) of their holdings. Detailed below are the interests in NV shares
provided to NV by ING and ASR in the second half of 2010. All interests are mainly held in cumulative preference shares.
ING
• 11,809,050 (0.68%) ordinary shares (€1,889,448)
• 20,665 (71.26%) 7% cumulative preference shares (€8,856,399)
• 74,088 (46.0%) 6% cumulative preference shares (€31,751,894)
ASR
• 3,938,010 (0.22%) ordinary shares (€630,082)
• 46,000 (28.56%) 6% cumulative preference shares (€19,714,220)
Between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010, ING and ASR (previously Fortis Utrecht N.V.) have held more than 5% in the share
capital of NV. As a result of the cancellation of the 4% cumulative preference shares on 9 August 2010, AEGON ceased to hold more
than 5% in the share capital of NV on that date.
Significant shareholders of PLC
The following table gives notified details of shareholders who held more than 3% of, or 3% of voting rights attributable to, PLC’s
shares or deferred stock (excluding treasury shares) on 28 February 2011. The voting rights of such shareholders are the same as for
other holders of the class of share indicated.
Number of Approximate
Title of class Name of holder shares held % held
Deferred Stock Naamlooze Vennootschap Elma 50,000 50
United Holdings Limited 50,000 50
Ordinary shares BlackRock, Inc. 74,570,243 5
Trustees of the Leverhulme Trust and the
Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust 70,566,764 5
Legal & General Group plc 51,295,103 3
Between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010, Barclays PLC, Legal & General Group plc and BlackRock, Inc. have held more
than 3% of, or 3% of voting rights attributable to, PLC’s ordinary shares. During this period, and as notified, certain of these holdings
reduced to below the reporting 3% threshold. The table above sets out the notifiable interest of shares or voting rights attributable
to PLC as at 28 February 2011.
Controlling security holders
To our knowledge, the Unilever group is not owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by another corporation, any foreign
government or by any other legal or natural person. We are not aware of any arrangements the operation of which may at a
subsequent date result in a change of control of Unilever.
Purchases of shares during 2010
During 2010 Unilever group companies purchased 9,059,547 NV ordinary shares, each with a nominal value of €0.16, for
€202.2million. This represents 0.53% of the called-up share capital of NV. The repurchase was undertaken to satisfy obligations
undershare-based incentive schemes.
No PLC ordinary shares were purchased by Unilever group companies during 2010.