Overview notifications substantial holdings

Overview notifications substantial holdings

Under the Financial Supervision Act (WFT), which has been introduced in the Netherlands, shareholders are required to disclose their holding if it represents 5% or more of the issued shares in the capital of a listed company. The following shareholders (of ordinary shares and preference shares) which qualify under WFT (most recent notification dated 16 November 2009) are known:

	Holding	Ordinary Shares	Preference Shares1	Subordinated Convertible Bond Loan
Flint Beheer B.V.	43.9%	x	-	-
Fortis Utrecht N.V.	6.8%	-	x	-
Ducatus N.V.	5.2%	-	x	-
1 Not tradable on the Amsterdam stock exchange.

In addition to these large shareholders, substantial blocks of shares (less than 5%) are held by foreign institutional investors, mainly in the United Kingdom and the United States. Draka estimates that the free float of its ordinary shares traded on the stock exchange has shown little change over the past year, remaining at approximately 50%.