SAR - Hartstone Group plc
January 16 2004 - 4:05AM
UK Regulatory
RNS Number:3118U
North Atlantic Smlr Co Inv Tst PLC
16 January 2004
FORM SAR 5
Lodge with a RIS or Newstrack if appropriate and the Takeover Panel.
A copy must also be sent to the company the shares of which are being sold.
Date of disclosure
16 January 2004
DISCLOSURE UNDER NOTE 3 OF RULE 5 OF THE RULES GOVERNING SUBSTANTIAL
ACQUISITIONS OF SHARES ("SARs")
Date of sale
15 January 2004
Sale of (name of company)
Hartstone Group PLC
1. Class of voting shares (eg ordinary shares)
Ordinary shares
Number of shares/rights over shares sold
2,000,000 in total Shares Rights
If rights over shares sold, as opposed to the shares themselves, specify nature
of rights
N/a
2. Resultant total holding of voting shares (and % of total voting shares in
issue)
24,060,000 shares 15.18%
Resultant total holding of rights over shares (and % of total voting shares in
issue)
N/a %
Total percentage
15.18%
3. Party making disclosure
North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC
4. (a) Name of person selling shares or rights over shares
As above
and, if different, beneficial owner
(b) Names of any other persons acting by agreement or understanding
Oryx International Growth Fund Limited is no longer interested in any of the Ordinary share capital of Hartstone Group
plc
Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (3) above
(Also print name of signatory)
Bonita Dryden, Assistant Company Secretary
Telephone and extension number
020 7747 5681
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. E-mail: monitoring@disclosure.org.uk
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