Royal Dutch Shell plc: Holdings in Company

LONDON, August 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

    TR-1: Notification of Major Interest in Shares

    1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying
    issuer
    of existing shares to which voting rights are
    attached: [ii]                                         Royal Dutch Shell plc
    2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
    An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                     X
    An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which
    may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting
    rights are attached
    An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect
    to qualifying financial instruments
    An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
    Other (please
    specify):
    3. Full name of person(s) subject to the
    notification obligation:                     The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
    4. Full name of shareholder(s)
    (if different from 3.):                          See answer to Question 9
    5. Date of the transaction and date on
    which the threshold is crossed or
    reached: [v]                                          15 August 2014
    6. Date on which issuer notified:                     18 August 2014
    7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or
    reached:                                                 Above 4%

    8. Notified details:
    A: Voting rights attached to shares
    Class/type of
    shares

    if possible    Situation previous
    using          to the triggering             Resulting situation after the triggering
    the ISIN CODE  transaction                   transaction
                                    Number
                   Number           of
                   of               Voting    Number     Number of voting   % of voting
                   Shares           Rights    of shares  rights             rights
                                              Direct     Direct  Indirect  Direct Indirect
      A Ordinary

    (GB00B03MLX29)    26,825,108    26,825,108                 27,325,108           0.428%
        A ADRs

    (US7802592060)    18,233,986    36,467,972                 36,468,080           0.571%
      B Ordinary

    (GB00B03MM408)    67,564,900    67,564,900                 70,951,426           1.111%
        B ADRs

    (US7802591070)    60,360,234   120,720,468                120,720,468           1.891%

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

    C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
    Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
                                                             Number of voting
                                                Exercise/    rights instrument    % of
    Type of financial    Exercise   Expiration  Conversion   refers to            voting
    instrument           price      date        period                            rights
            N/A                                                              Nominal  Delta

    Total (A+B+C)
    Number of voting rights                                   Percentage of voting rights
                           255,465,082                                            4.001%

    9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
    financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
    The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CG")
    holdings

    Holdings by CG Management Companies and Funds:        Number of            Percent of
                                                             Shares           Outstanding
    Capital Guardian Trust Company                        2,174,653                0.034%
    Capital International Limited                           599,257                0.009%
    Capital International SArl                              455,614                0.007%
    Capital International, Inc.                             308,500                0.005%
    Capital Research and Management Company             251,937,058                3.946%

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

    13. Additional information:

    14. Contact name:                    Mark Edwards, Royal Dutch Shell plc
    15. Contact telephone number:        +44-20-7934-2817

SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc

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