Holding(s) in Company

RNS Announcement

RNS Number : 2448K

Sainsbury(J) PLC

05 July 2017

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES ⁱ

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ⁱⁱ

J SAINSBURY PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		No
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached		No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments		No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights		No
Other (please specify):	Announcement by issuer of voting rights and capital	Yes

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: ⁱⁱⁱ	Qatar Holding LLC Qatar Investment Authority (as parent undertaking only)
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): ^iv	Qatar Holding LLC
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: ^v	03 July 2017
6. Date on which issuer notified:	05 July 2017
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: ^{vi, vii}	22% (downwards)

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares ^{viii, ix}
Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights ^x
			Direct	Direct ^xi	Indirect ^xii	Direct	Indirect
Ordinary shares of 28 and 4/7 pence each GB00B019KW72	481,746,132	481,746,132	481,746,132	481,746,132	N/A	21.99%	N/A

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date ^xiii	Exercise/ Conversion Period ^xiv	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments ^{xv, xvi}
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date ^xvii	Exercise/ Conversion period ^xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights ^{xix, xx}
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Nominal	Delta
					N/A	N/A

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
481,746,132	21.99%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: ^xxi

Qatar Holding LLC is the beneficial holder of the specified shares and voting rights in J Sainsbury plc. Qatar Holding LLC is established as a limited liability company in the Qatar Financial Centre ("QFC") and is licensed by the QFC Authority under License No. 00004. Qatar Holding LLC is wholly-owned by Qatar Investment Authority ("QIA") and makes this notification on behalf of itself and QIA.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:	N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:	N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:	N/A

13. Additional information:

As required under the DTRs, this notification has been prepared using the total voting rights figure of 2,189,757,531 as set out in the public announcement made by J Sainsbury plc dated 03 July 2017.

14. Contact name:

Ian Robert Kellow,

Head of Compliance,

Qatar Investment Authority/ Qatar Holding LLC

15. Contact telephone number:

+974 4499 5893

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RNS metadata

Title: Holding(s) in Company
Time: 17:58:02
Date: 5 Jul 2017
Category: Holding(s) in company
ID: 2448K