RNS Number:4477S
Capital Group Companies Inc
25 November 2003

                                                                      FORM SAR 5

Lodge with Company Announcements Office and Newstrack, if appropriate, and the
Takeover Panel. A copy must also be sent to the company the shares of which are
sold.

                                              Date of disclosure 24 November 2003

DISCLOSURE UNDER NOTE 3 ON RULE 5 OF THE RULES GOVERNING SUBSTANTIAL
ACQUISITIONS OF SHARES ("SARs")

Date of sale           21 November 2003

Sale of                    Hunting Plc

(1)           Class of voting shares     Number of shares/rights over shares sold  If rights over shares sold, as
                                                                                   opposed to the shares themselves,
                (eg ordinary shares)                                               specify nature of rights



                                         408,800 shares *

                Ordinary shares          0 rights                                  N/A






(2)           Resultant total holding of  Resultant total holding of rights over   Total percentage
voting shares (and % of total voting      shares (and % of total voting shares in
shares in issue)                          issue)

      14,786,150 shares   (14.64%)             0 (0.00%)                           14.64%

                                                                                   



(3)           Party making disclosure      The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

(4)           (a)           Name of person selling shares or rights over shares  ........................
                            and, if different, beneficial owner The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

                (b)           Names of any other persons acting by

                                agreement or understanding                        N/A

Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (3) above _____________________________________

(Also print name of signatory)                     Liliane Corzo

Telephone and extension number                     Contact Gina Martinez (213) 615-0469

                     ______________________________________

For full details of the SARs disclosure requirements, see Rules 3 and 5 of the
SARs. If in doubt, contact the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, Monitoring
Section, Tel. No: 020 7638 0129.

* This disposition of shares was not a market transaction, but a transfer of
shares due to the termination of a client account.






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