There are 21,281,388 shares in issue, 211,822 of which are Treasury Shares (at 26th March 2010).
9.95% of the shares are not held in public hands.
Shares held by Directors are as follows: (Interests at 26th March 2010)
| R A Ford |
223,000 |
| R E M Lee |
10,267 |
| J M F Padovan |
4,415 |
| R Lane-Smith |
15,000 |
| R Lowe* |
687,356 |
| Lord J Marland* |
1,192,359 |
| N Gurney |
10,000 |
Other shareholders are as follows: (Interests at 26th March 2010)
| A Stone |
2,030,869 |
9.64% |
| Montpellier Group LLC |
1,903,566 |
9.03% |
| PA Bell |
1,887,061 |
8.96% |
| Scottish Widows Investment Partnership |
1,394,638 |
6.62% |
| D Whelan* |
1,038,073 |
4.93% |
| D Ross* |
922,855 |
4.38% |
| T Agnew* |
807,142 |
3.83% |
| WL Beevers |
762,857 |
3.62% |
There are no restrictions on the transfer of WH Ireland AIM securities.
*Denotes members of a consortium of investors (details announced on 1st April 2006 and 14th May 2008) whose total combined shareholding in the Company is 5,575,486. This represents 26.5% of the issued share capital of the Company. (Interests at 26th March 2010).
