ATM
18/11/2015 08:30
SSH
NOT PRICE SENSITIVE
REL: 0830 HRS The a2 Milk Company Limited
SSH: ATM: SSH Notice - Freedom Foods Group Limited
Disclosure of ceasing to have substantial holding
Section 279, Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
To NZX Limited
and
To The a2 Milk Company Limited
Date this disclosure made: 17 November 2015
Date last disclosure made: 23 October 2015
Date on which substantial holding ceased: 17 November 2015
Substantial product holder(s) giving disclosure
Full name(s): Freedom Foods Group Limited
Summary of previous substantial holding
Class of quoted voting products: ATM ordinary shares
Summary for Freedom Foods Group Limited
For last disclosure,--
(a) total number held in class: 75,199,229
(b) total in class: 718,890,508
(c) total percentage held in class: 10.460%
For current holding after ceasing to have substantial holding,--
(a) total number held in class: 0
(b) total in class: 0
(c) total percentage held in class: 0%
Details of transactions and events giving rise to ceasing of substantial
holding
Details of the transactions or other events requiring disclosure: On 17
November 2015 Freedom Foods Group Limited sold 75,199,229 shares in The a2
Milk Company Limited at a price of AUD$0.85 per share, being approximately
AUD$64 million before capital gains tax (or approximately NZD$70 million).
Additional information
Address(es) of substantial product holder(s): Freedom Foods Group Limited, 80
Box Road, Taren Point, NSW, 2229, Australia
Contact details: Rory Macleod, Managing Director, + 61 2 9526 2555,
[email protected]
Name of any other person believed to have given, or believed to be required
to give, a disclosure under the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 in
relation to the financial products to which this disclosure relates: Arrovest
Pty Limited
Certification
I, Rory J F Macleod, certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
the information contained in this disclosure is correct and that I am duly
authorised to make this disclosure by all persons for whom it is made.
End CA:00273596 For:ATM Type:SSH Time:2015-11-18 08:30:03
