Capital Group notifies qualified shareholding in EDP
On March 7th, 2014, Capital Group notified EDP that, in accordance with article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code, it holds a qualifying shareholding of 370,584,953 ordinary shares of EDP, which corresponds to 10.13% of EDP's share capital and 10.13% of the respective voting rights.
Pursuant to the terms and for the purposes of article 248 of the Portuguese Securities code, EDP - Energias de Portugal, S.A. ("EDP") is providing the following information to the market:
On March 7th, 2014, Capital Group notified EDP that, in accordance with article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code, it holds a qualifying shareholding of 370,584,953 ordinary shares of EDP, which corresponds to 10.13% of EDP's share capital and 10.13% of the respective voting rights.
The significant shareholding resulted from the acquisition, on March 6th 2014, of 6,529,070 shares which corresponds to 0.179% of EDP's voting rights.
The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CGC") is the parent company of Capital Research and Management Company ("CRMC"). CMRC is "a U.S.-based investment adviser that manages the American Funds family of mutual funds". Neither CGC nor CRMC own shares of EDP for its own account. The shares reported are owned by mutual funds under the discretionary investment management of CRMC.
EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A.
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