Share Certificates, page-47

Issued Share Capital of Company:  296,482,131
Of the shares in issue 27.2% are considered not to be in public hands.
http://www.igasplc.com/investors/shareholder-information

Does anyone know about the ~ 30% of IGAS not held in public hands? What does this mean?
Is it a parent company per LSE IGAS Fundamentals

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6
0	Equity Holders of Parent Company	(7.93) Mar14	(18.35) Mar13	(12.12) Mar12	(1.54) Mar11	(0.50) Mar10

IGAS timeline
1-Jul-08 2.1 CR
1-Jul-09 3.5 CR
1-Dec-09 13.8 CR
1-Jan-11 20.6 CR
1-Dec-11 110.0 Acquire Star Energy Debt funded
1-Jan-13 23.1 CR
1-Mar-13 ?? Acquire PR Singleton
1-Mar-03 97.1 Debt $165US
1-Dec-13 17.6 Debt $30US
1-Dec-13 ?? Acquire Caithness Oil
1-Jan-14 38.8 Farm out Total E&P
1-May-14 117.1 Acquire Dart Dilution

Current IGAS market cap is ~ 222 GBP.  DTE market cap was ~ 120 GBP at time of takeover.

Still trying to work out whether we are now part of a FMG or an ABS.